[MPlayer-users] Running in a slave mode and reading from a fifo

[Joey Parrish]

On 4/23/07, Marcos Iuato <iuato at samurai.com.br> wrote:
> Joey Parrish escreveu:
> > On 4/23/07, Marcos Iuato <iuato at samurai.com.br> wrote:
> >> Is it possible having mplayer reading from a pipe and to be controlled
> >> in a slave mode?

> > Yes.  Slave mode should use stdin, and the video data must come from a
> > named pipe (FIFO).  If you're using linux, man mkfifo.  (IIRC)

>  From mplayer documentation:
> "MPlayer can read from stdin (not named pipes). This can for example be
> used to play from FTP:
>
> wget ftp://micorsops.com/something.avi -O - | mplayer -"

This is not what I'm saying.  I'm saying:

mkfifo /path/to/fifo
wget ftp://micorsops.com/something.avi -O /path/to/fifo &
mplayer -slave /path/to/fifo

The fifo is written to by wget, read from by mplayer, all as if it
were a file.  See man mkfifo (as I already mentioned).

--Joey