[MPlayer-users] Jpegs to h264 in realtime

[Jorge Chamorro]

Hi,

I have an http server that captures my Mac's screen (via screencapture) to a named pipe that's fed into imagemagick for filtering/resampling/etc and is then served as a jpeg to an <img> in the browser. The browser is kept in a loop in javascript that refreshes it on <img>.onload so that it looks like a video.

It's working ~ fine but wastes *a lot* of bandwidth unnecessarily.

I'd like to use mplayer to convert this stream of jpegs into a realtime mp4/h264 video stream, but I'm a complete newbie wrt video streaming and mplayer and I don't know neither if mplayer would be the right tool to do it, nor where to start.

Please, any help to get me going would be greatly appreciated :-)

Cheers,
-- 
Jorge.