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

On Sat, 7 May 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
>
> > mplayer does not seem to write to the audiodump.wav file made with
> > mkfifo (which is not busybox).
>
> It is critical to understand that FIFOs are not ordinary files. They
> do not grow more than a few K (and that may not even be detectable
> by ls). Nothing happens to them unless things are both reading from
> and writing to them.

What does fg do?  I don't find it as a program but if I type fg it tries 
to play a previously accessed station (Audio:  no sound).

If I try with the fg; fg, the last thing I see on the screen is something 
about no input.conf and it uses the default, then no sound.

ps says mplayer, sox, and play are running.

Have you tried this method with mkfifo?

If I use mkfifo, ps tells me there are two copies of mplayer running, 
otherwise just one.