[MPlayer-cygwin] Using mplayer with another app + problems withstdin

[Chris Taylor]

mplayer-cygwin-bounces at mplayerhq.hu wrote on :

> Hi,
> 
> I had sent this to the 'mplayer-users' list but then realised
> that this may be a better place for these questions. I apologise
> for the duplication.
> 
> I just downloaded the latest mplayer binary for Windows
> (MPlayer-mingw32-1.0pre5.zip) and am planning to use it
> in a demo to show streaming video over a network.
> 
> My current approach is to open a pipe to mplayer (via popen())
> and have an application read the incoming video stream from the
> driver. The application then writes the data to mplayer via fwrite().
> 
> Is there a better way to do this?
> 
> Also, this will require me to launch mplayer such that it reads from
> stdin. But my initial attempt that using stdin as input isn't working.
> For eg. 'mplayer file.mpg' works fine but 'mplayer - < file.mpg'
> causes a error message that says:
> 
>    Reading from stdin...
>    MPEG: Missing video stream!? Contact the author, it may be a bug :(
> 
>    Exiting... (End of file)
> 
> The documents and the manual both say that using '-' should work. Am
> I missing any additional arguments?
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> Regards,
> Harshal
> 

Try using cat file.mpg | mplayer -


Chris