Re: [fluid-dev] fluid_player_add(synth, '-')

[David Henningsson]

On 2014-08-29 08:21, Peter Billam wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> fluidsynth.lua is now apparently approaching stability at 1.4:
>    http://www.pjb.com.au/comp/lua/fluidsynth.html
> and the two little apps which motivated it are working happily:
>    http://www.pjb.com.au/midi/fluadity.html
>    http://www.pjb.com.au/midi/midi2wavs.html
>
> So as my contribution to feature-creep, I'd like to suggest
>    fluid_player_add(synth, '-')
> should read the midi file from stdin.  I do a lot of this, eg:
>    muscript -midi foo | midichord -f 0,2 -aco 4 | fluadity -
> and it didn't work for me from the C-library itself,
> so in fluadity I detect '-' and slurp into a tmp file ...

To avoid the tmp file, you can just load it into memory and use 
fluid_player_add_mem.

> (I hope this isn't an RTFM...)

I don't think so, but have you tried using "/dev/stdin" instead of "-"? 
(I'm not very familiar with /dev/stdin myself so this is just a guess.)

Anyway, if you feel motivated, feel free to write a patch, should be 
easy to implement in src/midi/fluid_midi.c, function fluid_player_load.

// David