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

[The Wanderer]

Nico Sabbi wrote:

> 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.

Of course it is. I just didn't have a better answer which uses tools
which I currently know to exist.

> The right way, still IMO, is to add a splitter muxer  to mencoder

That'd probably be correct, yes. Unfortunately I wouldn't know where to
begin trying to code it.

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