[vlc] Re: cannot read from named pipe

[Laurent Aimar]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2003, Andreas Krings wrote:
> Helo,
> is it possible to read a mpeg2 Stream from a named pipe??
 Yes.

> if i try the folling commands for example:
> 
> mkfifo /stream
> cat /videofile.mpg &
> vlc /stream
> i get only the error message below, but when i type:
> vlc /videofile.mpg
> it works great!!:

 In fact your file is an avi not a true mpeg file. I've just commited a
fix to play avi with pipe, so it should now work.


> Does andybody know a solution or are some filetypes only viewable by vlc 
> and not streamable through a named pipe to view them wiht vlc??
 Avi file is hard to read with pipe (sometime you won't get sound or fail).
mp4 won't be playable at all, but mpeg files should play fine.

-- 
fenrir

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