[MPlayer-users] Re: video out on two screens

[Ulrich Schweitzer]

On Friday 03 December 2004 19:54, Reimar Döffinger wrote:

> > mkfifo $path/stream.yuv
>
> [...]
>
> > mplayer -nocache -vo yuv4mpeg $*
>
> won't work because yuv4mpeg always writes to the stream.yuv in the
> current directory.

You are, of course, right. (Note to self: Don't post untested scripts)

> I have attached my suggestion. 

Unfortunately your script still doesn't make it possible to specify a 
relative path to the media file. I don't see a way to do this as long as 
mplayer doesn't offer something like -dumpfile for -vo yuv4mpeg. Bummer.

If you intend to distribute it, I suggest you put in
PWD=`pwd`
and
cd $PWD
as first and last lines, respectively. It is very bad form for a script to 
return in a different dir than the on it was called from. Otherwise 
people might nuke their system by calling something like
mplmult.sh && cd .. && rm -rf *

Ulrich
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