About a vod project

[Christophe Massiot]

À (At) 17:08 +0300 26/10/01, Kostas Lampropoulos écrivait (wrote) :

>I am a student from university of Patras (Greece). I have a project 
>on video on demand on rt-linux. I have written two programs (one for 
>server and one for client). I decided to use vlc for the viewer. I 
>came across this problem. While the client downloads the video, I 
>run vlc trying to play it (the video). But vlc plays only the part 
>that has been downloaded when I started vlc. Even though the video 
>keeps downloading, vlc doesn't play it whole. Is there a parameter 
>or something else that updates the video that vlc plays?

Instead of running :
     vlc dlfile.mpg
run :
     cat dlfile.mpg | vlc -


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Christophe Massiot.