slave mode mplayer pipe

Question

I am loading mplayer in slave mode like this:

mplayer -slave -idle -input file=/tmp/pipe

the pipe file contains:

loadfile /mymusic/1.mp3

Sofar it's running my 1.mp3 as expected. But i want to append seek and pause into the pipe but it doesn't work. What am i doing wrong or is it even possible like this?

I have tried the following in another terminal without luck:

echo pause > /tmp/pipe
echo pause >> /tmp/pipe
printf "pause\n" > /tmp/pipe
printf "pause\n" >> /tmp/pipe

It looks like it only opens the STDIN on startup of mplayer -slave. the OS is debian 8.4.0.

Answer 1

I had to make the FIFO file pipe with the command

mkfifo /tmp/pipe

instead of just writing into the file.