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Rémi Denis-Courmont. thank you for your reply. You are right:"file might not be suitable for nonseekable playback" By attention to your hint I converted it to mpegts format and now it works fine with :) : cat video.ts | vlc - but still there is the problem when i try to pipe using mkfifo: ...

I have same error when trying to play the video through pipe.
So be sure it is not a network problem.
I think it is a bug in vlc source code or it's configuration. please fix it

When i try : cat video.mkv | vlc - In GIU I get below error: VLC can't recognize the input's format The format of 'fd://0' cannot be detected. Have a look at the log for details and In command line i get below errors: mkv demux error: cannot find any cluster, damaged file ? ps demux error: cannot pe...