How to use media buttons for mplayer?

Create a named pipe like this:

mkfifo ~/.mplayer/pipe

Then, put the following line in ~/.mplayer/config:

input=file=/home/<username>/.mplayer/pipe

or you can run mplayer with input argument:

mplayer -input file=/home/<username>/.mplayer/pipe

Now use System Setting->Keyboard->Shortcut and add a shortcut with the command parameter as (see mplayer -input cmdlist for the command list):

echo "<mplayer command>" > /home/<username>/.mplayer/pipe

e.g. echo "pt_step 1" > /home/<username>/.mplayer/pipe for next track.

and then assign a key to this shortcut.

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