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

On Mon, 9 May 2005, sindi keesan wrote:

> > I've figured out that MPlayer only needs the fg junk if it is sent
> > to the background. Sox doesn't have this problem. So, here is the
> > updated script:
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > mkfifo /tmp/audiodump.wav
> > play /tmp/audiodump.wav &
> > exec real_mplayer -ao pcm -aofile /tmp/audiodump.wav "$@"
> >
> > # End of script
>
> I named the script 'mplay'.  Apart from telling me that /tmp/audiodump.wav 
> already exists (I should take this line out, I think) it works perfectly with 
> no error messages other than the usual ones about missing files.

I also removed the mkfifo line from the script and put in a note (in the 
script and in my list of files) to make that file once.

See keesan.freeshell.org/bl/blfiles.htm  for a list of things I have 
compiled and scripts that I have written up (with help) for basiclinux, 
which are accessible from a link at the bottom of my home page 
(keesan.freeshell.org).  This includes mplay and the rad script for using 
mpg123 with wget, and a small BL kernel that supports SB16 (but omits some 
ethernet cards and firewall support).

I have now been listening to one streaming MP3 station for 40 minutes.  I 
could not find an explanation in the 188 pages of man file about what the 
'status line' starting in A: actually reports, but 3% 16% seems to be 
typical of this station and there have been no skips at all (which is much 
better than I ever got with Realplayer 8).