[MPlayer-cygwin] Using mplayer with another app + problemswithstdin

[Shachar Raindel]

Are you sure that type doesn't do weird CR/LF conversions?

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 13:18:44 -0500, Chhaya, Harshal <hchhaya at ti.com> wrote:
> 
> > Try using cat file.mpg | mplayer -
> > Chris
> 
> Chris,
> 
> Thanks for your response.
> 
> Since I am on Windows, I used 'type' instead of 'cat' (they do
> the same thing) and I still get an error message. The detailed
> message is:
> 
> ======== BEGIN mplayer OUTPUT ============
> C:\userdata\hchhaya\mplayer>type f.mpg | mplayer -
> 
> MPlayer 1.0pre5-3.2.3 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
> 
> CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Foster 2045 MHz (Family: 8, Stepping:
> 4)
> Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
> Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
> To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with
> --disable-runtime-cpudetection.
> Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or
> directo
> ry
> Reading config file C:/userdata/hchhaya/mplayer/mplayer/config
> Reading C:/userdata/hchhaya/mplayer/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open
> 'C:/userdata
> /hchhaya/mplayer/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
> Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open
> '/usr/local/etc/mplayer/c
> odecs.conf': No such file or directory
> Using built-in default codecs.conf.
> c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf doesn't look like a font description,
> ignoring
> Cannot load font: c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf
> Using usleep() timing
> Input config file C:/userdata/hchhaya/mplayer/mplayer/input.conf parsed:
> 53 bind
> s
> 
> Playing -.
> Reading from stdin...
> 
> Exiting... (End of file)
> The process tried to write to a nonexistent pipe.
> 
> ======== END mplayer OUTPUT ============
> 
> And the 'config file' has this:
> 
> vo=directx
> #dr=yes
> double=yes
> font=c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf
> ao=win32
> autosync=100
> framedrop=yes
> quiet=yes
> 
> I don't understand why mplayer complains about
> c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf
> since it exists and it is a valid font file. But I am not really
> concerned
> with that right now. I am focussed on getting mplayer to read from
> stdin.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Regards,
> Harshal
> 
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