[MPlayer-users] mplayer with named pipes
Klaus Leopold
klaus at itec.uni-klu.ac.at
Fri May 17 20:41:01 CEST 2002
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
well, i guess it's because mplayer is trying to obtain the video file size -
that's for sure not possible with a pipe... is it somehow possible to solve
this problem; why does it have to know the whole file size before playing?
with mpeg-1/2 videos it works fine.
by the way: i need the named pipe for a very poor network streaming solution.
thanks in advance,
Klaus
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