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

[Nico Sabbi]

The Wanderer wrote:

> Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> is it possible to demux a video into an audio and a video stream
>> simultanously with mencoder/mplayer?
>
>
> I haven't spent a lot of time thinking about the subject, but I kind of
> doubt it. The only way to fake it which I can think of offhand to manage
> output to two different files simultaneously is with 'mplayer -ao pcm
> -vo png', which will dump the audio into a WAV file and the video into a
> series of PNG files (one per frame) - and the latter isn't precisely a
> "stream".
>

before someone come up with an implementation like that: IMO it's the wrong
solution.
The right way, still IMO, is to add a splitter muxer  to mencoder