On 23 February 2010 10:17, Simon Geard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:34:45 +0000, Ken Moffat > <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Any suggestions for something that's easy to build (no 'cmake', >> please), and can play .flv video files from stdin ? > > I'm afraid I can't provide specifics, but I'd be surprised if gstreamer > didn't include a source that read from stdin, which you could invoke with > it's command-line tools. Searching the docs, or perhaps enquiring on the > gstreamer lists, might give you a more detailed answer. > > For that matter, is it really necessary to supply the data on stdin? I > don't know what your perl script does, but if data is being streamed from > the net, surely there's a url that you might be able to pass to gstreamer > (or better yet, to Totem)? > > Simon. > -- Thanks for those suggestions. At the moment I'm going with the "record, then play" option (and experimenting with ffmpeg2theora for anything I think I want to save).
The perl script is less than 9400 lines, so I might yet be tempted to try to work out what is going on, when I've got a spare month. ĸen -- After tragedy, and farce, "OMG poneys!" -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
