Only one instance of mPlayer/VLC

[Karl Larsen]

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.
>
> Dotan Cohen
>
> http://what-is-what.com
> http://gibberish.co.il
> א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת
>
>   
    I have the same problem and I have had 6 VLC turned on and other 
than clutter on the screen I never saw any other effect.




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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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