Only one instance of mPlayer/VLC

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Mon Oct 15 19:30:49 UTC 2007


On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:34:33 +0200
"Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

Which what Mark's answer is in reality

#!/bin/sh
pkill mplayer
/usr/bin/mplayer $*




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