[mythtv-users] OT: Linux Question

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Mon Mar 15 13:51:13 EST 2004


On Saturday 13 March 2004 07:27, Gert van der Knokke wrote:
> Some years ago I used a program call runpipe or something like that.
> You create a FIFO file and as soon as you try to open it it runs a
> predefined set program. So you just create as many pipes as you have
> mp3files and share them on a samba share. As soon as it is opened the
> program can stream the highquality mp3 to a converter and output them
> at a lower rate.
>
> Gert

Now _that's_ cool.  Any issues with sharing FIFO files over Samba, 
though?

-JAC


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