[MPlayer-users] Generate image file output with mencoder

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 10:27:22AM -0700, James Board wrote:
> >> The reason I'm not using mplayer is because it doesn't do IRTC.
> 
> >
> >Why would you think that, of course it does?! I could imagine some issues
> >since there is no -ofps option, but I don't know, it might just work.
> 
> Actually, I only assumed that mplayer doesn't do IVTC.  I didn't check.
> I assumed mplayer was for displaying videos, while mencoder was for
> encoding or processing videos.
> 
> BTW, if mencoder is no longer supported, doesn't that mean mplayer is no longer
> supported?  Since they share a man page, I also assumed they were basically the
> same project.

Mencoder is about an additional > 7000 lines of code.
It is that code that is no longer properly maintained.
Though as you can see I might still find time sometimes,
it is just that ffmpeg is a transcoding tool with lots of
features and a lot more manpower and a lot of shared developers,
which overall makes mencoder a bit of a lost cause and pushing
people towards ffmpeg is simply the most reasonable long-term
strategy.
I don't really see a chance of ffplay becoming a usable replacement
for MPlayer anytime soon, plus on a more personal level MPlayer
contains some parts I actually have an interest in, so that
is a different situation.