On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Kenn Humborg wrote:
> How about:
>> mplayer --output=/dev/fd/1 | some-other-prog
>> (or whatever the relevant mplayer option is)
>> Saves having to manage the lifetime of a named pipe.
Nope, mplayer uses stdout for status/info.
Thanks to everyone who replied - I had a complete blind spot to named
pipes for some reason.
regards,
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