suggestions: 1. netcat
mencoder | nc udp windows-machine vlc udp (or tcp) 2. named pipe mknod ... pipe1 at windows: \\linux\path-to-pipe1\ hth, erez. On 3/14/06, Geoffrey S. Mendelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a computer running Linux (FC4) with a TV card. I've set up a shell > script to record from the TV card using mencoder. Sharing the disk it > writes to with Samba, I can read the file as it is written and watch it > on a Windows machine. The problem is that I end up with a big file I don't > want. > > Is there some way to stream or pipe the video directly to the Windows machine > and play it? I was thinking VLC might do it, but how do I feed it? > > Thanks. > > Geoff. > -- > Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM > IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 IL Fax: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 > Visit my 'blog at http://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/ > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]