* Veljko on Sunday, March 20, 2011 at 15:30:44 +0100
> Well, I tried it and it doesn't work. I have some .wmv file attached in
> mail. After Ctrl-v I'm in position to press enter after selecting
> attachment. Something like:
> A     4 some_video_file.wmv      [video/x-ms-wmv, base64, 1.3M]
> If I press enter, video file is started in mplayer, bacause it is set that
> way in my mailcap and that's fine. But if I want to play it in VLC, I
> thought I can press "|" and enter command that will start my attached
> video file. It doesn't work. pipe_decode doesn't make any difference.

I don't know VLC and what it accepts as arguments, but with
mplayer this works at the Mutt pipe-entry prompt:

mplayer -

or

mplayer /dev/stdin

Find out if and how VLC accepts standard input as an argument.

> But it doesn't really matter. I was just being curious about it. :-)

In practice you would use pipe-message and pipe-entry for text
content mainly I would think.

c
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