[vlc] VLC Input from Pipe

[Angus Davis]

Hello,
Thanks for answering my earlier question concerning VLC interfaces.  
Sorry I was not able to find that answer on my own despite 30 minutes of 
searching.  As it turns out, the -rc-fake-tty is an important advanced 
feature to making that work.

My next question is unrelated, but I have spent 45 minutes looking for 
an answer with no luck.

I have a program that captures an MPEG2 Transport Stream from my 
firewire card and outputs the content to stdout.  I would like to "pipe 
this" into VLC for streaming out. 

I am doing it like this:

./test-mpeg2 -r 0 | vlc -I rc -vvv /dev/stdin --sout 
'#standard{access=http,mux=ts,url=10.0.1.197:8080}' --rc-fake-tty

It does not work.  It reacts to the MPEG2 TS data as though they are 
commands, generating errors such as: "unknown command `?+'_U`.?f', type 
`help' for help"  Instead of "-vvv /dev/stdin" I have also tried "-vvv - "

I have tried but failed to find any clear explanation of how to "pipe" 
an input into vlc.  Is there a special URI syntax to specify that VLC 
will be called in a piped fashion?
-angus

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