[MPlayer-dev-eng] Making mencoder encode and display video at the same time

[compn]

On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 16:47:06 -0500, Jesse L. Zamora wrote:
>Hello,
>
>	I was going though the wishlist for mplayer, and I saw (on line 181) a wish 
>under the "Difficult stuff" section:
>	* encode and display video at the same time
>As a way to learn how mplayer & mencoder work (internally), I'd like to 
>implement this in mencoder. I think it would be helpful for video encoding 
>front-ends and stuff. So does anyone have suggestions or discussions on how 
>this should be done?
>
>Comments, suggestions, and discussions are welcome.

well cleaning up mencoder and removing the duplicate code from it 
would be much appreciated ... :)

there is a patch for ass subtitles in mencoder, be nice to have this.
mencoder cant currently output h264 in any useful container. this is
also a big problem.

back to your original question of encoding and viewing at the same time
here are some ideas from the lists:

1. combine mplayer+mencoder so you can use -vo xv to display+encode

2. remove mencoder, add encoding to mplayer (see -vo yuv4mpeg)

3. create a video filter or fifo to send video?
(see http://onebithq.com/root/mplayer/videomixer )

its possible i got some of this information about mencoder wrong, so
dont take my word as correct.

-compn