[MPlayer-users] Incorrect wav length after dump

[Zhou Zongyi]

On Sat, 16 May 2009 10:46:44 +0400
AlannY <m at alanny.ru> wrote:

> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:00:32PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > wav files larger than 2 - 4 GB are never valid. They can be made a bit
> > more valid than what mplayer creates but then will work with even fewer tools.
> 
> So... maybe it's possible dump not to wav but send stream to stdout? I
> mean something like this:
> 
>   mplayer dvd://1 | oggenc -o audio.ogg -
> 
> oggenc can encode from stdin.
> 
> Is it possible in some way?

If you are using windows, look at this.
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2009-April/061465.html
It seems Reimar does not care about windows users, so the patch is rejected.

If you are using *nix, try mkfifo.

Regards,

Zhou Zongyi