[MPlayer-users] Running in a slave mode and reading from a fifo

[Marcos Iuato]

Hi Joey,

Joey Parrish escreveu:
> On 4/23/07, Marcos Iuato <iuato at samurai.com.br> wrote:
>> Is it possible having mplayer reading from a pipe and to be controlled
>> in a slave mode?
> 
> Yes.  Slave mode should use stdin, and the video data must come from a
> named pipe (FIFO).  If you're using linux, man mkfifo.  (IIRC)
> 
> --Joey

 From mplayer documentation:
"MPlayer can read from stdin (not named pipes). This can for example be 
used to play from FTP:

wget ftp://micorsops.com/something.avi -O - | mplayer -"

So if slave mode reads from stdin and streaming too, is it possible 
having both running togheter?

Cheers,
Marco Iuato