patrick@patrick-desktop:~/sandbox$ mkfifo encode; mplayer -v  -ao pcm:file=encode -vo null stream.dump & lame -h encode music.mp3
[1] 4743
MPlayer 1.0pre8-4.0.3 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ (Family: 15, Model: 15, Stepping: 0)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE SSE2


get_path('codecs.conf') -> '/home/patrick/.mplayer/codecs.conf'
Reading /home/patrick/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/home/patrick/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Using built-in default codecs.conf.
CommandLine: '-v' '-ao' 'pcm:file=encode' '-vo' 'null' 'stream.dump'
init_freetype
get_path('font/font.desc') -> '/home/patrick/.mplayer/font/font.desc'
Font /home/patrick/.mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
Using MMX (with tiny bit MMX2) Optimized OnScreenDisplay
Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz).
get_path('input.conf') -> '/home/patrick/.mplayer/input.conf'
Can't open input config file /home/patrick/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory
Parsing input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf
Input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 59 binds
get_path('stream.dump.conf') -> '/home/patrick/.mplayer/stream.dump.conf'