Mercurial > mplayer.hg
changeset 693:3b039b8938e6
stdin stuff commited
| author | gabucino |
|---|---|
| date | Fri, 04 May 2001 12:00:28 +0000 |
| parents | 14a2f35921a0 |
| children | 623b2213d10f |
| files | DOCS/README DOCS/mplayer.1 |
| diffstat | 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/DOCS/README Thu May 03 23:32:56 2001 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/README Fri May 04 12:00:28 2001 +0000 @@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ - 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: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -167,6 +168,32 @@ 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