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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

> If you just want MPlayer to decode things for you, you can use
>
> mplayer -ao pcm
>
> which will dump the output to audiodump.wav which sox should be able
> to play.

The above is because the most recently compiled mplayer does not actually 
play sounds but it does make a .wav file.

I can type
mplayer -ao pcm http://(URL of streaming mp3)

and it fills a 320K buffer and continues to make audiodump.wav.

Then I can   'play audiodump.wav.'

But I cannot combine the two of them in a pipe (play complains if I try). 
I get a large audiodump.wav file but I want to play streaming mp3 (and 
eventually realaudio).

What can I do to play streaming mp3 or ram files without creating a very 
large audiodump.wav?


Sindi