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.
