Piped input to vlc

[Steve Brown]

I am trying to send data from an application to vlc via a fifo. The
results are not predictable. Often the file plays for a few moments and
then fails with "bad TS packet". Sometimes, only "bad TS packet"

I fear this may be a general Linux question and probably not appropriate
here, but thought I'd ask.

An example is:

cat goldeneye-demo.ts >/tmp/fifo &
vlc --yuv yuv --input ts /tmp/fifo

Playing the file directly with vlc, of course, works fine.

Anybody know what am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

Steve