On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 05:52:39PM +0100, Christian Ebert wrote:
> 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.

Tried with mplayer and the result is:
Playing /dev/stdin.
Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
Seek failed

or

Playing -.
Reading from stdin...
Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
Seek failed

> > 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

Yeah, I guess you are right, not really intended to be used with
multimedia.

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