programmes that work as --player?

[Marshall Cleave]

On Sun, 01 Dec 2013 18:25:21 -0000
Alan Campbell <entropyreduction at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm still fiddling around with gigi, (gui for GiP).  
> 
> One option I'm tinkiering with sets the --player for GiP.
> 
> At the moment I offer vlc, mplayer and ffmpeg (using ffplay); giig 
> knows
> 
> "vlc -"'
> "mplayer -cache 3072 -"
> "ffplay -"
> 
> Anyone used any other players, and if so with what paramters?  I've 
> found 15+ recommened audio players (beatbox, quodlibet..) and ten+ 
> video players (totem, miro..) but so far none seem to input via 
> stdin.
> 
> (latest version to gigi will know about preset and honour GiP user 
> preferences, so you can also specify your own --player by e.g. 
> setting a preference in a preset.)
> 
> 
> Yours,
> 
> Alan Campbell
> BRIGHTON, UK
> 
> You're not drunk if you can lie on the
> floor without holding on.
> 
>                     -- Dean Martin
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I've used xine in the past to pipe a get_iplayer stream into. 

"xine stdin:/" 

I find ffplay to be my preferred player. It seems to handle the radio
streams better than mplayer or xine 

Cheers
Marshall