[MPlayer-dev-eng] PS: changing file mid-playback (David Toso)

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 10:53:43PM +1000, David Toso wrote:
> Hi mplayer developers,
> 
> Earlier i wrote:
> >  
> > Specifically I am working atm on a "recorded movies" paged-menu subsystem. Each
> > page of the menu has (up to) 6 mplayer "objects". Each mplayer is playing a different
> > 20-second 352x240 MPEG1 stream. 
> >  
> 
> Actually, they are avi files with MPEG1 codec. I mention it just in case that makes a difference
> to what would have to be hacked in the demuxer (probably not).

It'll definitely make things trickier. With plain mpeg files you could
probably just pipe the data to mplayer through a fifo and have a
program switch which stream is getting sent into the fifo.

> Here is the (snipped) output of 'mplayer -identify':
> 
>     Detected AVI file format!
>     VIDEO:  [mpg1]  352x240  24bpp  25.00 fps  856.0 kbps (104.5 kbyte/s)
>     VIDEO:  MPEG1  352x240  (aspect 1)  25.00 fps  1000.0 kbps (125.0 kbyte/s)
>     Clip info: 
>       Software: MEncoder CVS-021124-23:55-2.95.4 

Who on earth made such nonsense files? The only point of mpeg1 is for
stuff that doesn't support mpeg4, but the only thing that will play
mpeg1-in-avi is mplayer!!

Rich