Treat as Pipe rather than a file?

[DeanoDeano]

Hi chaps, searched the docs and previous posts but can't find an answer. There's an option when opening a file 'Treat as Pipe rather than file'. Now I assume it means the file you're opening wants to be read fifo-style, therefore playback won't terminate.

Is that so and - if correct - how come I can't get it to work that way?

I'm streaming in to a file, and I want to stream/transcode from that file while the incoming stream continues to write it.

Is that the right thing to expect from this tick-box?

Best regards
D

[c.harrison1988]

Why does no one ever answer in these forums? 2008 and still not answered?

[fkuehne]

Most likely because nobody knew an answer back then. I don't have a definitive right now either.

To make this work, you need an input file which can be read in a fifo way, so it can't be a AVI or even MP4, but preferably a MPEG TS file, which can be read sequentially. If this doesn't work the way it should, more information to solve the problem is needed, such as excerpts from VLC's debug log, information on the files and on what you're actually doing within VLC.