[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: Is it possible to compile mplayer/mencoder as a lib called by other applications?

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 6/16/05, Bryan Wilkerson <bryanwilkerson at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Bo Xie <xiebopublic at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > >    Is it possible to compile mplayer/mencoder as a
> > lib? I mean I want to
> > > static link mplayer/mencoder lib (instead of as a
> > standalone application) to
> > > do something about encoder/decoder. Is it
> > possible?
> > >
> > > Best Regards,
> > > Xie Bo
> > >
> 
> The answer is no.  I've raised this as a request
> before and got the usual lazy reply: "why would you
> want that, the -slave mode is better".  I, however,
> disagree and think parsing std output from the mplayer
> process is archaic at best and problematic at worst. I
> have therefore starting working on a patch to provide
> a lib interface.  I have a version that works on
> Linux, but not Windows (I swore off Windows a few
> years ago:)).

Is it available somewhere? How advanced is it?

Regards,
Guillaume
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