[MPlayer-users] dumpstream to a pipe

[RC]

On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 15:28:31 -0400
The Wanderer <inverseparadox at comcast.net> wrote:

> If on the other hand you mean a
> pipe on the command line, that can't be done at present, although
> progress is (very slowly) being made towards making it possible.

It can be done, it just requires a VERY ugly hack...

eg.  mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile /dev/fd/3 3>&1 1>&2