mplayerfs.1

.\" Copyright 1992 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
.\" May be distributed freely
.TH MPLAYERFS 1 "4 July 2008" "Userspace Filesystems" "Application Manual"
.SH NAME
mplayerfs \- create a read-only mount that calls mplayer or any other application redirecting the input to whatever file is written to it
.SH SYNOPSIS
.BI "mplayerfs [mountpoint]"

.BI "mplayerfs /full/path/to/mplayer [mountpoint]"

.BI "mplayerfs /full/path/to/mplayer <mountpoint> options"

.SH DESCRIPTION

.B mplayerfs

The command starts mplayer [default] or any other application, piping into its 
input any file that is written under the mountpoint.

The default path is 
.B /usr/local/bin/mplayer
and the default mountpoint 
.B /mnt/mplayerfs

It is useful for example for playing files from archives, without having to unpack them locally.
The drawback is that the seek operation cannot be performed.

Only one file at a time can be written to the filesystem.

The program will continue running in the current console until unmount.

.SH OPTIONS
The options are passed to the called program. By default, the "-" option is 
passed to mplayer in order to set the input to the standard input.

.SH KNOWN BUGS

.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR fusermount (1),
.BR mount (8)
.SH AUTHOR
Developed by Radu Andrei Stefan (2008)
<radu124@gmail.com>.