Web page control for Mplayer?

OmnipotentOscar · 03-01-2005, 03:03 AM

Does anyone know of a plugin or similar that you can use in conjunction with mplayer on a remote machine to control a playlist?

Failing that does anyone know of any software that does this sort of thing?

I've got an old PC that I've set up as a media centre and want to be able to access it easily remotely via windows and linux machines... I figured the easiest way would be a web page. I currently use SSH but I can't control an already running instance of mlpayer.

jiml8 · 03-01-2005, 05:43 AM

You should look at streamtuner . It will do what you want, though perhaps not the way you want.

OmnipotentOscar · 03-01-2005, 06:23 AM

Doesn't seem to.. I need to be able to play the files on the remote PC from any other PC?

jonfa · 03-01-2005, 07:59 AM

I am interested in this as well. Currently, I log into the remote sever via ssh with the -Y flag and open the app. This works well on linux, but I had to install Cygwin with the X-server to make this work with Windows. It would be real nice to just open a browser and start playing tunes remotely. Let us know if youfind anything. Thanks.

I do remember there being a jukebox type app out there. the name escapes me.

Hammett · 03-01-2005, 08:39 AM

What about VNC?

http://www.uk.research.att.com/archive/vnc/

OmnipotentOscar · 03-01-2005, 08:51 AM

That would mean you'd only be able to control it remotely and not locally then!

Y0jiMb0 · 10-06-2005, 10:46 AM

Hi!
maybe you solved it but, in case it's useful for someone...
What I do is to use the slave mode of mplayer.
Do this:

Code:

mkfifo /tmp/mplayer_cmd
cat /tmp/mplayer_cmd | mplayer -slave some_file.ogm

Now you send commands to mplayer through "/tmp/mplayer_cmd", so you can access remotely and just do

Code:

echo pause > /tmp/mplayer_cmd

to pause the movie. For more commands see the documentation. Somewhere there you'll have a "slave.txt" file (or click here).
I know it's not exactly what you intended, but it's fairly close...
Regards

manatlan · 11-01-2005, 04:47 AM

nice trick, exactly what i'm looking for ...

but why the first works :
echo pause > /tmp/mplayer_cmd

and a second does nothing, blocking the process:
echo pause > /tmp/mplayer_cmd

any ideas ?

nutthick · 05-10-2006, 03:54 AM

Did you ever solve the problem with the second pause command and I'm having the same issue? I think it's something to do with the fifo pipe getting blocked, but I can't work out how to fix it?

Thanks