mplayer and fifo’s
Posted in randomjunk on June 30th, 2006 by larcher – 1 CommentIf you happen to be taking advantage of the -input file=pipe_file feature of @mplayer@, make sure your $HOME variable is defined whenever you launch mplayer. Otherwise, for some reason, mplayer won’t open the pipe for reading, so the commands don’t get through. And any process that tries to write a command to the pipe will hang.
(I’m messing with launching mplayer from a cgi script, and apparently my cgi scripts have no $HOME. )
