[vlc-devel] Re: playing from a file, which is 0 bytes in size

Sigmund Augdal Helberg dnumgis at videolan.org
Mon Feb 6 16:36:31 CET 2006


On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 10:30 -0500, Jason Pyeron wrote:
> what is the proper avenue I should follow to add an option to allow 
> playing a file which the OS reports as size 0?
> 
> case in point if I:
> 
>   dd if=//testserver8/video/realtime.mpg of=test.mpg
>   vlc test.mpg
> 
> 
> everything is fine, but if I:
>   vlc \\testserver8\video\realtime.mpg
try vlc stream:////testserver8/video/realtime.mpg or variations over
that consept.

Sigmund
> 
> there is no joy.
> 
> 
> 
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