[MPlayer-users] mencoder/lavfopts with HTTP sends GET instead of POST

[Ken Johanson]

Thank you Reimer. I'm struggling to find ways to pipe media out of mencoder,
short of having Unix with named pipes (mkfifo etc). POST seemed like one
solution since I needed to send the bistream over the network, anyway. And
stdout is not an option on mencoder yet.

Not having familiarity with the mplayer API I'll have to wait for someone
with more expertise to offer a patch, and for now try the named pipe option.

Thank you.
Ken


On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:44 AM, Reimar Döffinger <
Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 09:39:37PM -0700, Ken Johanson wrote:
> > Hi, with mencoder (SVN-r28311-4.2.5) the following sends a GET instead of
> > POST:
> > mencoder -tv driver=dshow:device=0:adevice=0:audioid=1:input=2 tv:// -ovc
> > lavc -lavcopts vcodec=libx264:vbitrate=100000 -oac mp3lame -lameopts
> vbr=0
> > -of lavf -lavfopts format=flv -o http://localhost/stream/
> >
> > Testing with ffmpeg this works fine though:
> > ffmpeg -r 30 -y -s 320x240 -f vfwcap -i 0 -vcodec libx264 -qmax 40 -g 300
> > -acodec libmp3lame -f flv http://localhost/stream/
> >
> > It appears that mencoder is not setting the libavformat's URLContext's
> flags
> > & URL_WRONLY bit.
>
> Mencoder does not use libavformat for writing, only for muxing/demuxing,
> and I think mencoder's http module does not fully support POST yet, at
> least not for writing a whole file.
>