On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Chuck Hast wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 18:17, Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
>> On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Chuck Hast wrote:
>
>> Maybe something like Javascript that spawns a vlc process reading from the
>> right place (/dev/tcp/$SERVERNAME/80 under bash I think)?
>>
> If I go to a network site, it will spawn VLC as soon as the file starts
> streaming. It is something else, I am thinking that something needs
> to be embedded in the stream perhaps to tell the receiving end that
> this stream should immediately start VLC.
Can vlc handle it if you give it the file's URL rather than its name, and
let it handle the transfer? If not, maybe do the download into a "file"
which is actually a named pipe.
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