[vlc] Re: Allow playback of empty character devices

[Christophe Mutricy]

> VLC has a check in the file access module to fail when files are empty.
> This disallows using the following command:
> 
> $ vlc /dev/cxm0
> 
> The only thing that works:
> 
> $ cat /dev/cxm0 | vlc -
> 
> The disadvantage is that FreeBSD spends a lot of time in piperd, sending
> data from cat to vlc. The following patch adds a check to make 0 bytes
> character devices unseekable:
> 

Hello,

I think vlc stream:///dev/cxm0   will work.

But your patch has a point so i'll forward it to vlc-devel



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Xtophe

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