[MPlayer-users] RTSP - mencoder - ffmpeg - ffserver

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 06:04:39PM +0100, sid wrote:
> The problem with this solution is that i can see the framerate of the
> mencoder output increasing till 5 fps (or similar) than ffmpeg exits
> giving the error :"pipe1: Unknown format".

I doubt the MJPEG probe can run well on a pipe, try telling ffmpeg explicitly
which format the input has (-f ... before the -i I think).
Or wrap it in a container suitable for streaming, nut I guess would work.