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03-01-2005, 04:03 AM
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Registered: Jan 2005
Distribution: Fedora 5, Debian
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Web page control for Mplayer?
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.
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03-01-2005, 06:43 AM
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You should look at streamtuner . It will do what you want, though perhaps not the way you want.
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03-01-2005, 07:23 AM
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Registered: Jan 2005
Distribution: Fedora 5, Debian
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Doesn't seem to.. I need to be able to play the files on the remote PC from any other PC?
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03-01-2005, 08:59 AM
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Location: FL
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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.
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03-01-2005, 09:39 AM
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Location: Barcelona, Catalunya
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03-01-2005, 09:51 AM
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That would mean you'd only be able to control it remotely and not locally then!
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10-06-2005, 11:46 AM
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Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Valencia (Spain)
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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:
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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
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11-01-2005, 05:47 AM
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Registered: Oct 2005
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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 ?
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05-10-2006, 04:54 AM
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Distribution: Slack
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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
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