[MPlayer-users] mplayer with named pipes
Grigori Goronzy
greg at chown.ath.cx
Fri May 17 20:57:02 CEST 2002
Klaus Leopold wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> DOCS/bugreports.html] hi *,
>
> i'd like to play an divx (5) movie with mplayer via a named pipe like
> this:
>
> mkfifo myFifo
> cat myMovie > myFifo
>
> mplayer -vo x11 myFifo
>
> if i do so, i get following error:
>
> Error: lseek failed to obtain video file size: Illegal seek
>
hmm, try "cat myFifo | mplayer -vo x11 -" instead.
-greg
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