[vlc] Re: VLC & stdin

Bill Eldridge bill at rfa.org
Tue Apr 29 15:34:16 CEST 2003


Laurent Aimar wrote:

>On Mon, Apr 28, 2003, MAL wrote:
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>>Hi, can your playback software play content from stdin?
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> Yes, just use - as filename.
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>>I have a system which stores it's MPEG2 data in segments, with an MPEG 
>>header only on the first segment.  I therefore need to 'cat' them in 
>>order and pipe them to a media player.  I also need cross platform 
>>conformity, (mainly windows & linux).
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>So try cat * |vlc -
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>
How about streaming to stdout?


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