The problem is that the file handle you are creating is just to a system process consisting of ogg123 piped to lame. I suspect that something like this may work:

my $ogg_fh = new FileHandle "ogg123....";
my $lame_fh= new FileHandle "lame.....";
my $pipe   = new FileHandle "$ogg_fh | $lame_fh &";

....

# now close your pipe and then lame and ogg123
# you should be able to just undef the handles
# as this should call close automatically
$pipe->close();
$lame_fh->close();
$ogg_fh->close();
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Completetely untested but it makes vague sense to me.

cheers

tachyon

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