directing mplayer's output to stdout

[Garrett Klein]

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Greg,

	$mkfifo foo
$mplayer -o foo #or whatever the switch is for output...
$program2 foo #both ends of the pipe must be open before the data is sent. The second command should be run from another console since mplayer will block trying to write to a half-opened pipe.

HTH.

On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 12:34:19PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> Forgive my ignorance, but how does one use a file which is a fifo?
> Thanks.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 06:45:10AM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> 
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