accessing running process

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 :)

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.

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.