[MPlayer-users] mplayer with named pipes

[Grigori Goronzy]

Klaus Leopold wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> DOCS/bugreports.html] hi *,
> 
> i'd like to play an divx (5) movie with mplayer via a named pipe like
> this:
> 
> mkfifo myFifo
> cat myMovie > myFifo
> 
> mplayer -vo x11 myFifo
> 
> if i do so, i get following error: 
> 
> Error: lseek failed to obtain video file size: Illegal seek
> 

hmm, try "cat myFifo | mplayer -vo x11 -" instead.

-greg