[vlc] Re: Using vlc to show video through another app

[Michael S. Zick]

On Tue July 6 2004 15:34, Chhaya, Harshal wrote:
>
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> - use a multi-threaded application where one thread reads the data
> off the network as fast as it arrives and puts it in a large buffer.
> The other thread passes the data from this buffer to vlc via the
> fwrite. I am hoping that with a large enough buffer, I may be able
> to avoid the buffer overrun problem.
>
That is called a 'named pipe' or 'fifo' 
mkfifo filepath.filename
will do that.
see: man mkfifo
for details.
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>
> If there is some other approach I should consider, feel free to suggest
> it.
Your welcome.
Mike

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