[MPlayer-users] is it possible to play and to dump stream simultaneously ?

[Evgeni Kornikhin]

> Well, what I do is dump the stream with the mplayer line..and then I open
> another console window and I then play the stream.dump file (as it is being
> written).  Thus, I don't have to open another network connection to play the
> material.

However this way works only for reliable network. If connection breaks
or paused, playing of stream.dump can be broken without possibility of
restoring from paused moment