[MPlayer-users] SVN-r32479: pcm:file=fifo does not work

[sean darcy]

On 10/30/2010 05:15 AM, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:23:02AM +0200, Oliver Seitz wrote:
>>> Why in the world does mplayer (ffmpeg) care if audio.wav is a fifo?
>>
>> Because the pcm data in wav files is organized in chunks. At the
>> beginning of each chunk, the size of that chunk is stored.
>>
>> So, mplayer writes audio data, and when finished, seeks back in the
>> file to insert the correct chunk size. This is obviously impossible
>> in a fifo.
>>
>> For raw pcm, it could be possible to stream it through a fifo, but
>> that depends on the implementation, I think.
>
> Considering that all applications _producing_ audio hang the far
> more reasonable approach is to look at the other end.
> Probably NeroAac doesn't work correctly with pipes.
> Sometimes adding doing something like "cat pipe1>  pipe2" helps
> since 1) cat works with pipes 2) it adds a bit of extra buffer.

Not sure I understand. How would you set this up in this script?

I wonder if it ever worked for Dark_Shikari?

sean