[FFmpeg-devel] Compositing streams side by side

[compn]

On Wed, 3 Aug 2011 10:25:27 -0400, Matthew Brown wrote:
>I have a video conferencing application I am working on, and we need
>to take the two input streams as received by the Wowza (Flash-type)
>server and join them together side-by-side, saving that new joined
>video out to a new file for archive. The Wowza folks point us over to
>ffmpeg for accomplishing such a thing. Is ffmpeg the answer on this one?

there are instructions for using mencoder here:
http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=4521&start=30
and ffmpeg + imagemagick and some voodoo here:
http://linux-tipps.blogspot.com/2011/06/create-side-by-side-or-top-bottom-3d.html

a way to do this in one step would be useful. :)

-compn