[SOLVED] mplayer, xF86 media keys

Question

Hi,
mplayer is my software of choice for playing music. That's what I would like to do with it: bind some of the xF86 keys to move to the next/previous music -- instead of going to the terminal where mplayer is originally running and use the keys < / > to move between tracks.
However, after some search, I couldn't find a script/command that I could bind to the xF86 keys that allows me to do this. Is there such a command I could use?
Thanks!!
p.s.: since xmonad is my windows manager, I'm using the xmonad configuration file to bind my media keys.
Last edited by falsum (2010-05-08 09:20:48)

Answer 1

Create a pipe
mkfifo mplayer.pipe
start mplayer like so
mplayer -slave -input file=mplayer.pipe
now you can send commands to this fifo, for example:
echo "pt_step 1" > mplayer.pipe
echo "pt_step -1" > mplayer.pipe
for next song/previous song.
Edit: Gah, beaten by snakebite. The dangers of multi-tasking. Oh well...
Last edited by Gusar (2010-03-27 10:52:12)