[MPlayer-dev-eng] streaming video

[Daniel Sadoc Menasche]

Hi,

As I have stated in a message to this group recently, I´m writing a 
client/server application to stream video over the Internet.

I´m using MPlayer to play the video at the client side.  The command line 
is like the following:

./client | (mplayer -)

The program is working fine.  But my questions are:

1. Is there just something implemented in mplayer in order to do video 
streaming?  If yes, where?  Where should I look at the source code?

2. After mplayer displays ¨Start playing...¨, it shows some info,
including the percentage of the buffer filled.  When I run my client
application in some machines, this percentage grows slowly, and in other
machines, it goes down slowly.  But after one hour of video, it sometimes,
for instance, become zero.  And then I get problems.  How may my client
program communicate with mplayer in order to send data to mplayer in the
correct rate?  Is there any example of application which does this?

Thanks a lot.

Regards,
Daniel Sadoc