[nas] playing /dev/stdin

[Jon Trulson]

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Hanspeter Roth wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> it seems that auplay doen't want to play /dev/stdin. It claims:
>
> Couldn't play file "/dev/stdin"
>
> Playing /dev/stdin would be usefull for piping.
> Why doesn't auplay want to play /dev/stdin?
>

 	Depends on what you were trying to play...

 	These threads may interest you:

 	http://radscan.com/nas/nas-ml/msg00333.html
 	http://radscan.com/nas/nas-ml/msg00348.html


 	Basically, auplay will play .au files from stdin, due to luck.  It 
would need to be modified in order to allow the user to specify ahead of 
time what data was about to be played...  That's what causes the problem - 
the texhnique used to determine what type of data is to be played.


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