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

[Rich Felker]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 12:11:22PM -0400, Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 17:02 +0100, VJ wrote:
> > No, my idea was to have frame being encoded to be rendered on screen
> > as well so the user can see the progress of encoding.
> 
> Ok, I thought so.  Not possible with bmovl.  It's quite trivial with
> vf_outbuf.  You'd need another process to manage grabbing the video data
> from the shared buffer and rendering it somehow (like a gtk+ app using a
> gdkpixbuf), but that's the proper way to do this sort of thing anyway.
> Display logic doesn't belong in an encoder.

What about an mplayer input-stream driver to read from vf_outbuf? :)

Rich