[2008.12] Pause mplayer on call ?

Brock awwaiid at thelackthereof.org
Sun Jan 25 07:29:25 CET 2009


On 2009.01.21.14.50, Michal Brzozowski wrote:
| 2009/1/20 Dylan Reilly <dreilly at atariland.net>
| 
| > Pausing mplayer is probably going to be problematic without re-writing
| > it. Firstly, you would have to run it in slave mode so that you could
| > write to the process using a pipe.
| 
| 
| How about pausing and starting on a signal? No need to read from a pipe.
| Probably a simple hack would do it.

How about 'killall -STOP mplayer' (equivalent of '^z')

and then 'killall -CONT mplayer' (equivalent of 'fg' after the '^z')

Toss those into the rules.yaml, eh?

--Brock





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