[MPlayer-users] listen while dumping?

[Rashkae]

On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 05:18:20PM +0000, Bertie Coopersmith wrote:
> A related question:
> mostly I run the mplayer command at night via an 'at' command but sometimes
> I run it directly.  When I do that it would be nice to be able to listen
> while streaming and creating the audiodump.wav intermediate file.
> Is this possible? - On another channel perhaps?

Just play the wav file while it's being written, using the multi-tasking method of your choice... (I'm a Konsole user myself, so I usually just fire off a new console tab for these kinds of things.)