[MEncoder-users] SUB: Could not determine file format

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On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:57:45 +0400
Phil Oleynik <Oleynik.Phil at mail.ioffe.ru> wrote:

> read man mkfifo, this is very simple way to transfer data between
> apps.  This is NOT pipe, so the disk will be used anyway. 

Perhaps there's a language issue, but this really isn't correct.  fifos
are, in-fact, named pipes, and the disk is not used to store any of the
data fed to them... 

They really can't overflow; the app writing to them will be forced to
just wait until the reading application catches-up, and vice versa.