stdin mixer is a small program that allows the standard input of a program to be accessed from different terminals through a Unix socket. It can be used to provide a simple remote control method for programs like mplayer or mpg321.
How does it work
'stdinmix [app]' allow two ways of sending commands to its child application stdin:
- using the terminal stdin (as if you run the application alone)
- using a unix socket, by default at /tmp/socket-sm.UID, overwritable by the environment variable SM_SOCKET.
If you don't specify any argument, it will connect to the mentioned unix socket, and forward the current stdin to that socket.
How do I use it
I wanted a program for transcribing voice in audio tracks. I had mplayer, and I only needed a way to send commands to it as "-slave". By now, on need, I use xbindkeys [1] to map F1 to "mplayer-remote -p" (pause) and F2 to "mplayer-remote -b" (back a few seconds). Then I can transcribe in my favourite editor (vim) pausing and moving back the audio track when needed.
You can find some scripts in the utils/ directory.
What's New in This Release:
· This release implements everything but remotely closing stdin.
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