[xine-user] 6 seconds delay while playing streams from STDIN

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Hi all,

I'm a new inexperienced user of xine. I want to play streams from STDIN
use something like:

         cat /dev/video | xine -p stdin://mpeg1

The video then is played, but with a delay about 6 seconds. 
If I play the stream like:

         cat /dev/video > test.mpeg
         cat test.mpeg | xine -p stdin://mpeg1

then no delay occured while playing the video.
Is it possible to reduce the delay of 6 seconds in some way ?
Have anyone similar problems while playing streams from STDIN ?

I use a KFir encoder board and a KFir kernel driver module, which delivers 
MPEG1/2 data on /dev/video.
My computer hardware consist of a P-II 400 cpu, 256M RAM and a Xpert@Play 
graphic card.
I'm running Linux Kernel 2.4.2, XFree 4.0.2, KDE 2.1 and xine-0.3.7.


Thanks for any help,

Günter