Re: [xine-devel] How do I turn of #save of stream without reopening stream?

[Michael R. <mr...@us...>]

Hi,

> The #save parameter to the MRL in libxine is very cool! However,  
> the front-end that I am writing is trying to save the streams at  
> the boundaries of songs from internet radio. The only way I see how  
> to turn off #save after it has been turned on is to call xine_play 
> () on the same mrl without the #save parameter. Unfortunately, this  
> tries to reopen the internet stream, which introduces a delay which  
> is not great.

Your frontend could direct the #save to a named pipe (mkfifo /tmp/ 
xine-save; xine some-mrl#save:/tmp/xine-save). Then your app can  
listen on the other end of that pipe and discard or keep the content  
as it pleases.

Michael