[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] support for playing from named pipes (fifo)

[David Holm]

Martin Josefsson wrote:

>On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Marc Lavallée wrote:
>
>>Martin Josefsson wrote:
>>
>> > I found myself having the need for playing from a named pipe
>> > and found out that it didn't work so I added support for it.
>>
>>I applied the patch and tried to play a file through a named pipe,
>>but the screen is all black... Would you please explain how to use
>>this feature? An example would be appreciated.
>>
>
>I use it like this:
>
>nc -l -p 9876 > /tmp/mplayerfifo &
>
>mplayer -cache 2048 -autoq 63 -osdlevel 0 -fs -screenw 704 -screenh 576 -vo mga /tmp/mplayerfifo
>
>I usually play movies in the console using framebuffer and mga_vid to be
>able to get accelerated playback via tvout on my Matrox G400.
>
>And if I use a normal pipe (nc | mplayer) nc has keyboardfocus so I can't
>fastforward (yes you can fastforward in mpeg-streams). So I use named
>pipes instead to solve this.
>
>I use the above to play video via network from another machine without
>having to download the files and without using any networked filesystem.
>
>To simply test the named pipe support you can replace the 'nc' line above
>with:
>
>cat videofile > /tmp/mplayerfifo &
>
>where videofile is a file containing an mpegstream.
>
>I hope this helps.
>
>/Martin
>
>Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
>
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No offence, but what exactly is nc??