[MPlayer-dev-eng] mencoder output to non-AVI formats

[Alex Beregszaszi]

Hi,

> 	I'm finally getting requests about being able to transcode from
> FILM -> general file format using Mencoder. Unfortunately, I must
> discourage conversion of FILM -> AVI for technical reasons (FILM needs
> variable frame rate, AVI only supports constant). I remember seeing "add
> muxer api" on the TODO list. What's the status of this? I think it would
> be useful to add QT support first. It can be difficult to test since QT
> Player, which we would need to test against, has trouble handling the DivX
> variants that MPlayer outputs (per my understanding, that had a lot to do 
> with why the Heroine Warriors discontinued Cinelerra). For testing a MOV
> muxer, it would probably make sense to output to raw, uncompressed frames.
> Can Mencoder do that?

I'm working on muxer api ;)

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alex