[MEncoder-users] encoding video for live streaming to iphone...

[Hradec]

I'm trying to find some more info on how I can use mencoder or ffmpeg to 
encode avi files to a format the iphone can play while downloading from 
a webserver.

I have a custom python script that works like a webserver. This 
webserver lists all my avi files as links. When the user click on one 
link, the webserver sends a flash video player to a popup window, and 
the flashvideo player access an url that triggers the webserver to run 
ffmpeg and reencode the file. As it reencodes, it grabs the reencode 
file using pipes and streams it to the flashplayer...  works like a 
charm... just like my personal youtube whitout any pre-reencoded 
files... all is reencoded on the fly...

Now that I got my iphone, I want to be able to use it on it... The 
problem is the iphone does not have flash!!!!! so, I need to figure out 
a way to reencode my avis to a file format that can be streamed to 
iphones quicktime, with some sort of setup on the file that tells 
quicktime to start playing even before it finished the download.

Just reencoding it as MOV works, but quicktimes does not start play the 
file until the download/stream is finished... I need to find a way to 
make quicktime play the file as it downloads it...

any ideas on a command line for mencoder/ffmpeg that would create a file 
that quicktime plays as it downloads??

thanks guys...

-H