updated: Wed Jan 11 14:53:02 CET 2006


MPLAYER / MENCODER

Note that pf supports the yuv4mpeg stream format, which mplayer
can generate. However, this seems to only work with mplayer providing
the timebase, which is usually not what is desired. Therefore i use 
mencoder and some wrapper scripts to import movie files as raw video.

See demo/rawvideo.pf for info on how to use ffmpeg for playback.

See also pdp : doc/misc/rawout.txt whichs talks about using pdp_rawout~



PLUMBING

( this should become a more general streaming and playing plumbing faq. )

not directly pf related, but interesting anyway. how to use ffmpeg and
mplayer to send video over tcp without using a streaming server:

ssh -L 10080:zzz.i:80 -L 10003:zzz.i:3 zwizwa
ffmpeg -an -r 1 -s 320x240 -vd /dev/video1 -b 20 pipe:.avi | netcat -l -p 12345
nc zzz 12345 | mplayer -fps 25 -fs -