[wellylug] Streaming Video

[Martin Bähr]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 12:05:06PM +1300, David Antliff wrote:
> The trouble was that mplayer would only read up to the length of the file 
> at the time it was initially opened.

right.
i remember that problem too...

you should be able work around that by sending the file to mplayer
through stdin. using tail or something else that keeps reading at the
end of a file.

but if mplayer now does that itself, then even better...

greetings, martin.
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