David Johnson wrote: > I have an application that reads video from a socket and saves it to a > file, which I then play using GStreamer. The major problem with this > approach is that the file keeps getting bigger and bigger until the disk > is full ;-) > > What I'd like to do is have a buffer, say 5MB in size, which I can point > GStreamer at. So every time I write 60K to the tail of the file, I'd need > to remove 60K from the head of the file.
A named pipe may be useful to you, depending on your buffering requirements, and assuming gstreamer can play from one. e.g. http://www2.linuxjournal.com/article/2156 You can create a named pipe from python. Jeremy -- Jeremy Sanders http://www.jeremysanders.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
