[MPlayer-users] mplayer with named pipes

[Klaus Leopold]

hi *,

i'd like to play an divx (5) movie with mplayer via a named pipe like this:

mkfifo myFifo
cat myMovie > myFifo

mplayer -vo x11 myFifo

if i do so, i get following error: 

Error: lseek failed to obtain video file size: Illegal seek

well, i guess it's because mplayer is trying to obtain the video file size - 
that's for sure not possible with a pipe... is it somehow possible to solve 
this problem; why does it have to know the whole file size before playing? 
with mpeg-1/2 videos it works fine.

by the way: i need the named pipe for a very poor network streaming solution. 

thanks in advance,

Klaus