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

[Oliver Seitz]

>> Considering that all applications _producing_ audio hang the far
>> more reasonable approach is to look at the other end.  [...]


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

Try the decoder:

mkfifo test_fifo
cat test_fifo > test_file &
mplayer -ao pcm:file=test_fifo[:nowaveheader]

Try the encoder:

cat test_file >test_fifo &
neroAacEnc -if test_fifo

If one of them works and the other one doesn't, don't try to fix the 
running one :-)

Greets,
Kiste