Bash trick of the day

[Kristian Hermansen]

On 3/25/07, Robert La Ferla <robertlaferla at comcast.net> wrote:
> Voila - You can watch a tv stream remotely.

Ahh, but can you can do the same with /dev/dsp?  And more importantly,
can you mux the streams together in real time?  I would be interested
to know how vlc/mplayer/xine are able to mux separate audio/video
streams.  Ideas?

Also, I would rather use a pipe, as I don't see how mplayer would not
exit immediately on not having input there.  Plus, a pipe would buffer
everything for you :-)

Streaming Client:
$ mkfifo /tmp/video
$ nc -n -l -p 9999 > /tmp/video

Streaming Server:
$ cat /dev/video | nc -n 1.2.3.4 9999

Streaming Client:
$ vlc /tmp/video
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Kristian Hermansen

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