[MPlayer-users] Playing while dumping a stream?

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Wednesday, 27 July 2005 at 12:04, faxmodem at free.fr wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 06:10:05PM +0930, Mark Williams (MWP) wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Im using -dumpstream on a internet MP3 radio stream.
> > 
> > Is there an easy way to also play the stream at the same time?
> > 
> > Ive tried playing the dumped stream file using mplayer, but it stops at the
> > point where the recording was when the playing was started... it doesnt
> > continue.
> > I imagine this is due to mplayer reading the file size at starting of playback
> > and stopping when at that position rather than playing until EOF?
> > 
> > So is there a way to do this?
> 
> You could use a named pipe:
> 
> mkfifo stream.dump
> mplayer -dumpstream <url>
> cat stream.dump | tee SavedStream.wmv | mplayer -

Or, without the FIFO:

mplayer -nortc -really-quiet -dumpstream <url>
tail -f stream.dump | mplayer -

HTH,
R.

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