[MPlayer-users] Problems with mp3 playback

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hi,
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 12:15:35PM +0200, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> This is the right solution, just do it the right way:
> Use the pipe syscall to create a pipe, writing any data you receive
> directly into one end.
> The other end you pass to MPlayer:
> mplayer /dev/fd/<fd of other end of pipe>

If that isn't your area of expertise *g*, maybe better read e.g.
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lpg/node11.html to avoid the worst pitfalls and
some other tips.
Also using -input file=... you can still use "mplayer -" even with slave
mode.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger