Javier Krausbeck wrote: > Hi there, > > I've been asked something strange. I have to take a video input and split it > in three parts, sending it to three outputs simultaneously. > > The first thing I thought of was creating a pipe, sending there the video and > trying to read from there. I did my firsts tests with mplayer, but as soon as > I launched the second instance of the video output, the mplayer which was > feeding the pipe exited. > > Does any of you have any good idea to accomplish this in a simple and elegant > way?
just expanding your idea with pipes: mkfifo f1 mkfifo f2 mkfifo f3 mplayer whatever_options_you_want_and_make_it_write_to_stdout | tee f1 | tee f2 >f3 and then reading from f1, f2, f3 doesn't do the thing you want ? yoyo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
