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

Sascha Sommer saschasommer at freenet.de
Sat Jul 31 14:06:13 CEST 2004


On Saturday 31 July 2004 09:50, Erik Augustson wrote:
> > 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)
>
> With a Mingw build i can get playback from stdin fine ( i think? ) with
> "type movie.mpeg | mplayer - movie.mpeg"
>

Not really it is trying to play from stdin and fails, then plays it the normal 
way.
Anyway I had a look at the stdin handling again and found the problem.
Playing from stdin on mingw should now work with latest cvs.

Sascha




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