[MPlayer-users] newbie: can mencoder stream to red5 server?

[Anthony Griffiths]

I'm new to mencoder but I have used ffmpeg a lot. I've had success using
mencoder to record from a tv tuner to an avi file with the -o option eg: -o
outfile.mpg dvb://, but I'd like to output to a red5 server instead - the
output url being rtmp://172.16.1.250:1935/live/livestream1. I've tried
'-o rtmp://172.16.1.250:1935/live/livestream1 and the command runs ok but
if I play the output in vlc it's just blackness. Can mencoder output to
red5 (like ffmpeg can) ? if so, what is the correct syntax? thanks for any
help.