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

[Oliver Seitz]

> On Sunday 30 November 2008 06:17:49 am Evgeni Kornikhin wrote:
>> I can play or dump stream separately. But is it possible to do that
>> simultaneously ?
>
> 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.

That's what I said. It could be improved if "-dumpfile - " would dump to
stdout, which it seems not do do now. You could then dump to stdout, tee
into a file and pipe to another mplayer for simultaneous playback.

Greets,
Kiste