NAME

Daemon::Mplayer - run mplayer daemonized

SYNOPSIS

  use Daemon::Mplayer qw(mplayer_play mplayer_stop);

  mplayer_play(
    {
      pidfile => q{mplayer.pid},
      logfile => q{mplayer.log},
      path    => '/usr/bin/mplayer',
      args    => [ qw(file1 file2) ],
    }
  );

  mplayer_stop('mplayer.pid');

DESCRIPTION

Daemon::Mplayer - Mplayer, daemonized

EXPORTS

None by default.

mplayer_play()

Parameters: $pidfile, $log, $path, @mplayer_arguments

  mplayer_play(
    pidfile => $pidfile,      # /tmp/mplayer_daemon.pid
    logfile => $logfile,      # /dev/null
    path    => $mplayer_path, # /usr/bin/mplayer
    args    => $mplayer_opts  # None
  );

The pidfile is used as a locking mechanism and will contain the PID of the spawned mplayer process.

The logfile is where the output from mplayer will be stored. The default is /dev/null.

The path is the full path to an mplayer executable. Defaults to /usr/bin/mplayer.

args takes an array reference that might contain optional parameters to mplayer, as well as the file/URI to be played.

mplayer_stop()

Parameters: $pid | $pidfile

Returns: Boolean

Takes a PID or pidfile and tries to stop the corresponding process.

If a valid PID is encountered in the pidfile, tries to stop the process. If this succeeds, the pidfile is removed.

AUTHOR

  Magnus Woldrich
  CPAN ID: WOLDRICH
  m@japh.se
  http://japh.se

CONTRIBUTORS

None required yet.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2011, 2019- The Daemon::Mplayers "AUTHOR" and "CONTRIBUTORS" as listed above.

LICENSE

This library is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.