[MPlayer-users] Re: dump _and_ play

[The Wanderer]

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:

> On Wednesday, 21 June 2006 at 14:28, Francois Visagie wrote:

[that Louis-David Miterrand wrote:]

>>> Thanks for the tip.
>>> 
>>> vlc has a nice buil-in stream duplication facility :
>>> 
>>> vlc --sout 
>>> "#duplicate{dst=display,dst=std{access=file,url=/tmp/phile.mpg}}"

...*ugly* syntax, IMO. I expect something that unreadable in actual
code, not in a command line (leaving aside the case of writing code on
the command line, say when passing a one-line script to 'perl -e').

>>> Let's hope something similar might be incorporated into mplaye
>>> some day.
>> 
>> On some Unix derivatives I worked on streams could be forked (I
>> think that was the term) by the operating system. Does yours not
>> perhaps support that?
> 
> man tee ;)

Doesn't that only work with stdout/stdin, though?

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