[MPlayer-users] Mencoder output formats?

Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri gsbarbieri at yahoo.com.br
Mon Nov 25 05:23:02 CET 2002


 --- Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml at fatooh.org> escreveu: 
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > Hello,
> > 
> > How do I make mencoder output to formats other than AVI?
> > I tried to use something like:
> >    mencoder -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=rv10 -o test.rm
> > 
> > and the test.rm is a AVI
> > 
> MEncoder only outputs to AVI.
>

:(

 
> > And, there is a way to make mencoder output to stdout?
> > 
> > And, what is the best format to use when streaming? With AVI u
> can't
> > seek. I need one that isn't too CPU intensive.
> > 
> Someone else will have to answer this one for you...
>

Any idea who can answer this one?


 
> > I'm asking these questions 'cause I'm trying to make a "Security
> Camera
> > Recorder" to my father. It will use a Athlon XP 1800+ w/ 4 v4l
> cards
> > and I want to record the video locally and stream it over the net,
> so I
> > could see them at home. By now I'm using ffmpeg to record the
> movies
> > and ffserver to stream them and mplayer to play them remotely. I
> really
> > want  to use MEncoder to at least capture the image so I can use
> the
> > -vop crop to eliminate those border noise and the -vop bmovl so I
> can
> > record the time to each frame (that why the output to stdout, if I
> can
> > do that I can output to ffmpeg and make it record)
> > 
> > Any ideas on this topic are welcome!
> > When I have things working I'm thinking in opening a sf project.
> > 
> > Gustavo
> 
> You might be able to get this working well with a named pipe:
> 
> $ mkfifo video.pipe
> $ mencoder -sourcefile-and-all-your-options -o video.pipe
> 
> ...and then set your ffmpeg server to read from video.pipe.
>

This will encode and then decode and then encode? Or there is a way to
make only ffmpeg encode?
 
> This URL describes something similar:
> http://www.rmatsumoto.org/camera/dc1394-ohphone.html

Very good this one... I'll try to do something like that.

Really thanks,

Gustavo

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