[MPlayer-users] Video outpu device: FIFO or PPM files

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On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 08:15:04 +0200
Johann Horvat <johann at indiecam.com> wrote:

> do you know, if there is any possibility to get a fifo buffer or ppm
> files as a output device? So I could use the decoded data in my app
> without patching mplayer...

It's quite a simple patch to get a stream from the image -vo's.  Just
comment out the fclose() and image-num++ lines (whatever it's called)
in the file in libvo/ to get a stream of images to eg. 00000001.ppm
which you can be a fifo.