[MPlayer-users] Is it possible to demux a video and...

[Giacomo Comes]

On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 11:40:19AM -0700, RC wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 20:57:40 +0200 (CEST)
> Meino Christian Cramer <Meino.Cramer at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> >  is it possible to demux a video into an audio and a video stream
> >  simultanously with mencoder/mplayer?
> 
> It's much easier to do it with 2 seperate mencoder instances.
> 
> If this is a live stream, you could always write it to a fifo, and have
> two instances of mencoder reading from that fifo, one outputting the
> audio, the other outputting the video.

Are you sure it will work this way? I don't think so. You need two (identical)
fifo, one for each istance of mencoder.

Giacomo