[MPlayer-dev-eng] An Idea - I cannot develop it. Scrap it if it is not any good.

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Friday, 05 August 2005 at 04:13, Oded Shimon wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 09:37:59AM -0400, Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 14:26 +0100, VJ wrote:
> > >   I was just thinking if somebody adds this feature to mencoder
> > > someday - a filter which shows the frames on the screen as they are at
> > > the stage where the filter is added in the chain. It could be used to
> > > show the encoding as it proceeds. It could show all frames or every
> > > nth frame
> > 
> > I have developed something like this called vf_outbuf, which writes the
> > contents of the video to a shared memory buffer.  An external
> > application can handle the display portion of it, which is how it should
> > be in mencoder's case anyway.  Although I didn't build it for the type
> > of thing you're describing, it would be possible to use it that way.
> 
> That sounds like it would work pretty well... I do wish it would be 
> possible to actually preview the ENCODED video while encoding, if it did 
> MEncoder would be the first program on earth to support it. :)

I believe VirtualDub and clones have supported this for years.

R.

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