[MPlayer-users] playing the multicast stream in mplayer from a circular file

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amit bag wrote:
> Hi All,
>          I am receiving  multicast  streaming  from the streamer and I write it to a file .I fixed the size to 1GB so that it start writing the file from the begging when it reached that size .But the mplayer stop playing the file when it reached the 1GB size because after that it get the EOF and terminated .But I need to create a circular file of size 1GB .So that it write to the file and continue writing to that file after reaching 1GB and the mplayer continuously play that file and never get the EOF .Can any one tell me how can I create that circular file of 1GB size .Thanks in advance .
> 
> Regards,
> Amit 
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You could have a look at www.mythtv.org, the older versions of mythtv 
did have a continuous written file, for live-tv, which never got larger 
than a user-definable size. So if you receive at 2GB/hour, you were able 
to seek back, pause and so on.