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Asked: 2026-05-19T23:54:15+00:00

I’m setting up a computer running OpenBSD that I wish to play all the

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I’m setting up a computer running OpenBSD that I wish to play all the music I will ever want. I want it to basically set in a corner and do it’s thing. The problem with that is that I want to control it from wherever I am. I can do that (though not extremely easily) with ssh from my computer. I think it’d be really cool to control(as in, choose songs, skip, pause, volume control, etc) it from a simple web page so I could access it from my phone, as well as my computer.

So, I’d prefer to use mplayer for this. Is there any way of controlling mplayer from say a PHP script or something similar?

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  1. Editorial Team

    http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/tech/slave.txt

    You can start up mplayer in command receival mode. Create a named pipe first:

    mkfifo /tmp/mplayercontrol
mplayer -slave -input file=/tmp/mplayercontrol

    Which in turn can be controlled via PHP easily:

    file_put_contents("/tmp/mplayercontrol", "pause");

    If you run mplayer and PHP on the same server, that should already do it.

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