[2008.12] Pause mplayer on call ?

[Thor Andreassen]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 08:15:04PM +0100, Lothar Behrens wrote:

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> I currently do not use any GUI for it, so mplayer may only killed
> with  any usefull signal to pause.
> Then how to restart it again.

Assuming you can detect when an incoming call arrives, the following
should be helpful:

A generic way to control terminal programs, that were not designed
with remote control in mind, is to use GNU Screen [1]. Start your
program like this:

$ screen -dmS SOME_NAME COMMAND_TO_RUN

Now you can send input to the program by "stuffing" input to screen:

$ screen -S SOME_NAME -X stuff INPUT_TO_RUNNING_PROGRAM

It is also possible to interact directly with the running program by
"attaching" to the screen session:

$ screen -S SOME_NAME -r

Detach with <C-a>-d.

[...]

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/screen

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HTH
Thor