On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 22:17:04 +0000 Teun <Teun.Kaptein at planet.nl> wrote: > mkfifo stream.yuv > mplayer <file.avi> -vo yuv4mpeg > > and mplayer "hangs" processor activity almost 0% Of course it would hang if you don't have any program reading from the fifo while mplayer is trying to write to it.