[wellylug] Streaming Video

[Pete Black]

David,

It is possible that it is a newish feature, as I always compile the 
latest version of mplayer from source, but certainly I see this 
behaviour here - I have my Linux-runnin' XBox ripping a DVD to a file 
with mencoder over the LAN, and MPlayer on my main machine will happily 
play the partial file. (or vice versa if I am ripping on my main machine 
and playing on my XBox).

Typically I compile my mplayer from source, and don't use the 
distro-packaged versions, so it is possible I have never noticed that 
older mplayer versions don't support useful features like this.

-Pete


>
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Pete Black wrote:
>
>> If you are encoding the file at the time, players like mplayer will 
>> keep playing as the file grows larger, but you do lose skip/seek 
>> functionality which is a little bit crap.
>
>
> This must be a new feature, because I can definitely, 100% 
> catagorically say that this was not the case about 6 months ago. If 
> it's true, then fantastic - it's just what I've been trying to do for 
> about 3 years now.
>