[ILUG] difficulty redirecting to a pipe

[Ciaran O'Riordan]

Glenn Strong <Glenn.Strong at cs.tcd.ie> writes:
> $ mkfifo the_stream
> $ mplayer -playlist http://globe-ss.dagupan.com:8080/dzbb.asx -ao pcm:file=the_stream &
> $ oggenc the_stream

Yes, this is what I was trying to do, thanks.


The -dumpstream solution also worked.

This solution:

 mplayer blah.stream -ao pcm -aofile /dev/stdout | whatever

Gave:

 "ERROR: Input file "(stdin)" is not a supported format"

...which I guess is an oggenc limit.


Thanks to all.
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