[FFmpeg-user] feeding frames to ffmpeg manually?

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Friday 2012-01-27 22:13:19 +0100, Csillag Kristof encoded:
> 2012-01-27 21:58 keltezéssel, Carl Eugen Hoyos írta:
> >Csillag Kristof<csillag.kristof<at>  gmail.com>  writes:
> >
> >>I am interested in using ffmpeg in a very non-standard way.
> >>
> >>There is an application that is currently displaying images to an X11
> >>display.
> >You do know that x11 is a possible input format for ffmpeg?
> If you mean the x11grab backend, then yes.
> 
> I could probably use (I am not sure whether I could properly
> synchronize that, though),
> but this process (application -> x11 -> ffmpeg) would involve an
> unnecessary stage;
> the (virtual) X display. I would like to omit that, to reach better
> throughput, lower latencies and more easy synchronization of the
> frames.

You may use the cache protocol (libavformat/cache.c) and use a fd for
pushing data from your application to ffmpeg/libav*.

Otherwise you could write a custom input device for acquiring directly
from the application using some IPC mechanism.
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