[MPlayer-users] Relationship between mplayer and ffmpeg

[Nico Sabbi]

ying lcs wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Can you please tell me what is the Relationship between mplayer and 
> ffmpeg?
> * Does mplayer use ffmpeg?

of ffmpeg's components mplayer uses libavcodec to decode and encode 
video and audio
and libavformat to mux and demux many file formats

> * If I have mplayer, can i do everything within mplayer that ffmpeg
> provides? e.g video conversion? or mencoder jus.t proivdes a subset of
> functionalities that ffmpeg provides?

only the ffmpeg's I/O stream readers are not supported, but it's not 
really a problem
(except for rtp)