accessing running process

[TorianIronfist]

Hi,

I have built a media center tv system which uses mplayer to play both music and video. I have been meaning to build a LIRC adaptor for it so I can use a remote control, but in the meantime I have been using my laptop to control it. If I want to pause a movie I have to vnc in to the media center to do it.

What I was wondering was if there was a way to use ssh and access an already running process such as Mplayer to pause, play, etc.. from the command line.

Hope someone can help

[Cabhan]

Not in general (that I know of), but some applications allow you to control already-running processes (for instance, "audacious -e" enqueues a song into an existing process of audacious).

I believe that there is some sort of MPlayer Remote that does something similar for mplayer. Try to see what you can find.

[TorianIronfist]

Thanks for the response, after some more googling it looks like you can setup mPlayer with a named pipe, which allows you to then send commands to it.

Thanks for the help.