directing mplayer's output to stdout

[Janina Sajka]

Have you tried directing mplayer's output to a file which is a fifo?

I'm no expert on fifos by any means, but this sounds like the classic
application of named pipes.

Gregory Nowak writes:
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> Hi all.
> 
> I've been reading mplayer's documentation, and can't find what I'm
> looking for, so I hope that someone here may know the answer. Yes,
> yes, I know there are mplayer-specific lists. 
> 
> What I want to do is play a video file, passing the audio through the
> null module, and passing the video to stdout, to be used by another
> program in a pipe.
> 
> Invoking mplayer with the vertical bar is in "mplayer ... | program2
> ..." doesn't work, and using the grater than symbol doesn't work
> either as in
> "mplayer ... -vo yuv4mpeg:file=> ... "
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.
> 
> Greg
> 
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