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I have a bash script that is using anonymous pipes to achieve:

  • grabbing video from dv capture device
  • writing to a file (using tee)
  • piping it to ffmpeg2theora (converting to ogv/theora video)
  • writing to a file (using tee)
  • piping it to oggfwd in order to send it to icecast streaming server

How could I achieve that using named pipes (fifos), so that I could have separate processes that I could separately control?

I was using this script:

 #!/bin/bash
 while (true); 
 do
    dvgrab --format dv1 - | \
    tee /filename_`date +%y%m%d_%H%M%S`.dv | \
    ffmpeg2theora.linux -f dv -x 382 -y 288 -v 3 --speedlevel 2 --no-skeleton -o /dev/stdout - | \
    tee /filename_`date +%y%m%d_%H%M%S`_stream_382x288.ogv | \
    oggfwd icecastserver.com 8000 password /mountpoint.ogv
done

One of the reasons I'm asking this is that I need to have clean dv files and ogv files on disk regardless if the network is up and icecast streaming server reachable.

Mokubai
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Luka
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You can probably do this with ordinary files if your don't need any concurrency at all. The principle for named pipes is the same

Change

foo | \
bar | \
baz

To

foo > foo.out
bar < foo.out > bar.out
baz < bar.out

If the *.out are named pipes then I suspect the programs writing to them may get blocked waiting for their output buffers to be drained.

RedGrittyBrick
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