On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 09:38 +0200, Johan Duinkerken wrote:
> Accidentilly, I started mplayer (which I use all the time to test the
> mpeg-files I make) to read my "test.mpg", while I was still writing to
> it... linux rocks! mplayer didnt't budge one single moment but just played
> test.mpg, on and on and on, until I finally stopped writing to it... :-)

Yes, but make sure you don't let mplayer get too close to the end of the
stream, otherwise funky things start happening. :)

But, yes, as long as you take some precautions, it does work quite
reliably, of course.  I do the same thing here:
http://sault.org/mebox/livetv.php

Cheers,
Jason.



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