[MPlayer-users] BUG: stream_file.c: reconnects to fifos

[PyroPeter]

On 08/22/2012 10:17 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 08/22/2012 01:25 PM, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
>> Simple: For real files MPlayer knows the size an thus the we really,
>> truly reached EOF, thus it does not bother with retrying.
>> I think a simple solution would be to make stream_file always signal
>> that we are sure that it is a proper EOF when we fail to read more.
>> I am not sure that is 100% fool-proof, but at least it is no worse
>> than it was before stream_reconnect was added.
>> Fixed in SVN r35112.

Thanks, that was quick!

> Would an alternative be:
> for f in $(find /stuff); do mplayer "$f"; done

No, because it is really hard to get bash to loop over a list of files
with spaces in the filenames. Special characters in filenames are a
great problem with my music collection, which is why I came up with the
playlist-through-pipe approach.

Regards,
PyroPeter

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