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

[Shachar Raindel]

there is some flag to disable it from pulling commands from stdin.
--noconsole-control or something like that. Check is this help.
Additionally, why using stdin and not some network stream protocol,
natively in mplayer? Streaming video to mplayer using pipe and stdin
is cheating, and a bad one - no seek, no length, etc.

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:51:47 -0500, Chhaya, Harshal <hchhaya at ti.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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
> 
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