[MPlayer-users] mplayer-fifo buffer

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:56:19PM -0400, Srinivas Burugupalli wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a fifo buffer on my linux box where i write the motion jpeg video 
> data continuously. I would liek to dump it to mplayer.
> I have created the buffer using mkfifo  (eg: mkfio myfifo.mjpg)
> 
> When I  give that to mplayer liek this:
> 
> gmplayer /path/myfifo.mjpg
> 
> it doesnt work.
> Is there any other way I can implement this?
> Thanks in advance for any help.

imo it doesn't work if you use a file either. what is a .mjpg file
anyway?? i suspect it's something broken such as a bunch of jpegs
concatenated with no higher level structure..

rich