Only one instance of mPlayer/VLC

[Dotan Cohen]

On 15/10/2007, Mark Knoop <mark at opus11.net> wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > The stepmother is now enjoying her first few hours on Fedora. One
> > thing that she cannot program herself to do is to close any open
> > instance of mplayer or vlc before clicking on another file. I'm no
> > good at bash, and I need this working for her _today_, so I'm kindly
> > asking the Fedora community if anyone has a wrapper script for
> > mplayer/vlc that checks if there is a running instance, and if so
> > closes it before opening a new instance. Basically, she needs the
> > appearance that the new file is 'replacing' the old file in the open
> > program. Sorry for the bother, and thanks in advance.
>
> pkill mplayer; mplayer <file>
>
> --
> Mark Knoop

Thanks, Mark, but she's over 70 and can barely see the screen. I don't
think she's aware that there's an input device other than the mouse.
She's not exactly the terminal type. She needs a script that I can
place in ~/bin/mplayer that will call /usr/bin/mplayer with any
arguments sent to ~/bin/mplayer such that if mplayer is already
running, it will be killed before another process starts.

Dotan Cohen

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