[MPlayer-dev-eng] Suggested diffs to enable mplayer to stream audio to other apps

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On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 11:19:51 +0200
Jan Knutar <jknutar at nic.fi> wrote:

> So far people have used fifos to achieve the same result...

Yes, but not very well.

Outputting to a fifo, mplayer may encounter an error and exit, but
the app taking input from the fifo has no idea, and keeps waiting for
input, forever.

Being able to use stdin is a huge improvement.  It's a shame that
-really-quiet doesn't completely eliminate output to stdout.