On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 00:43:37 +0100 Nico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what EOF? can you explain please?
Excuse me if I step in the middle of this thread with something a little different. I would like to know if there is a way to avoid an EOF condition in mplayer when reading from a file. For example szap -r canale5 cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 >my_program.ts then, after some minutes (with cat still running) mplayer my_program.ts so I can see the time shifted program and pause/jump forward/jump backward but if I want to switch to "live" I can't just skip forward a few times because if there are 56 minutes (which I have no way to know exactly) in the file and I'm playing at 52, a +10 min skip will quit mplayer (end of file). If mplayer is reading from a pipe it just blocks when he needs data, it would be nice if something similar could be achieved for file playback too, with a flag to enable "tail -f" behavior. I can kind of workaround the problem with pipes, tail -f and other tricks but it appears too complicated for such a simple thing. Bye. Ciao. -- Roberto Ragusa r.ragusa at libero.it -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
