[MPlayer-users] mplayer video output to pipe/mmap

[Andreas Schiffler]

That won't work, since I need several streams at the same time (running
several mplayer processes. The best would be to modify yuv4mpeg.c to
allow for a parameter that accepts paths as well as "-" for stdout.

I am currently experimenting with an edited yuv4mpeg.c plugin.

On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 13:41, Torinthiel wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 01:34:07PM -0400, Andreas Schiffler wrote:
> > I'd like to send a decoded video stream as YUV or RGB via a pipe  into a
> > different program. mplayer should still handle audio output as before.
> > 
> > I am thinking of a protocol such as the Netscape-Multipart streams with
> > boundaries between frames. Or some mmap'ed region similar to af-export
> > could be used.
> > 
> > Is there a output plugin that can do that? Maybe yuv4mpeg (documentation
> > sais it can only write to a file)? How would I write such a output
> > plugin?
> 
> Maybe try creating a named pipe (using mkfifo) and make yuv4mpeg write
> to it.
> Torinthiel