so i did get this working on linux with mencoder + pdp_rawin using code:

#! /bin/sh rm /tmp/pipe mknod /tmp/pipe p mencoder -nosound -ovc raw -of rawvideo -vf scale,format=rgb24
mms://ph.wm.live05.pscdn.net/00302597_live12?MSWMExt=.asf -o /tmp/pipe

although i am finding this might be inefficient having to convert colorspace
from yuv -> rgb -> yuv....the only way i have been able to get this to work is
to do this. i am not sure why, admitting i am limited in my understanding of
colorspace.

From mencoder i get something like:

Decoder is capable of YUV output (flags 0x1b) VDec: vo config request - 320 x 240 (preferred colorspace: Packed YUY2) VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied. [swscaler @ 0x883e3d0]No accelerated colorspace conversion found [swscaler @ 0x883e3d0]SwScaler: using unscaled yuv420p -> rgb24 special
converter

then with pdp_rawin i have to send messages:

[tmp/pipe( [bitmap/rgb/320x240(

then i have to convert back to yuv using:

[pdp_convert image/YCrCb/*]

....and thats the only way i can get it to work.

i have tried something like:

[pdp_rawin tmp/pipe bitmap/yuv (or even yv12)/320x240]

with accompanying altered mencoder script with nothing but a static, f'ed up
image.

i am not complaining too much because i am pretty happy this is just working in
general... i am just looking to make it a little more efficient and i am a
little confused over all the yuv/yv12 stuff that is going on and why i have to
convert to rgb and back to yuv just to get it to work right - with the
understanding pdp/yuv is the fastest and most efficient.

BTW the piping stuff is really killer! although i have only been able to get it
to work on linux... osx gives me a wicked big file that continuously increases
in size as the stream is converted. linux just makes a 0k tmp/pipe that is very
nice. i guess this is just a mencoder thing on osx obviously.

thanks! m  

--- On Sun, 3/1/09, Jaime Oliver <jaim...@gmail.com> wrote: