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stdin stuff commited

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- VCD (Video CD) directly from CD-ROM or from CDRwin's .bin image file
- DVD, directly from your DVD disk, using optional libcss for decryption
- MPEG 1/2 System Stream (PS/PES/VOB) and Elementary Stream (ES) file formats
- RIFF AVI file format
- ASF 1.0 file format

Supported audio & video codecs:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*** See DOCS/CODECS for the complete list, or check ***
*** http://mplayer.sourceforge.net/DOCS/codecs.html ***

         to load the driver: insmod drivers/mga_vid.o , or to make it automatic
         insert the following line at the end of /etc/modules.conf:
         alias char-major-178 mga_vid
         and run 'depmod -a' .

TV output:
~~~~~~~~~~
If you have a Matrox G400 Dual-Head card, you can watch movies on TV, using
the TV-out feature of the second head. Read DOCS/TVout-G400 for details!

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- VCD (Video CD) directly from CD-ROM or from CDRwin's .bin image file
- DVD, directly from your DVD disk, using optional libcss for decryption
- MPEG 1/2 System Stream (PS/PES/VOB) and Elementary Stream (ES) file formats
- RIFF AVI file format
- ASF 1.0 file format
- supports reading from file or stdin

Supported audio & video codecs:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*** See DOCS/CODECS for the complete list, or check ***
*** http://mplayer.sourceforge.net/DOCS/codecs.html ***

         to load the driver: insmod drivers/mga_vid.o , or to make it automatic
         insert the following line at the end of /etc/modules.conf:
         alias char-major-178 mga_vid
         and run 'depmod -a' .

Playing from stdin:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Now it's possible.

To play something by reading from stdin, just use '-' as filename:

cat test.mpg | mplayer -vo xv -

Restrictions:
	mpg: no backward seeking
	asf: no backward seeking
	avi: no index reading -> no seeking at all, and playing of some files are
		+impossible

No control from controlling terminal/xterm, but hotkeys and osd works
from the window. or course LIRC still works everywhere.

This feature combined with external wrappers extends possibilities.
For example, to play a movie just downloaded from your favourite divx
server:
	rar p ast-nssvcd.rar | mplayer -vo xmga -fs -

With an asf grabber or http dump program you can play from the net.
(however we planned to add direct asf/http/ftp inputs with seeking and other
stuff, but for now it's a good workaround)

TV output:
~~~~~~~~~~
If you have a Matrox G400 Dual-Head card, you can watch movies on TV, using
the TV-out feature of the second head. Read DOCS/TVout-G400 for details!