I utilize ffplay a lot for previewing encoding settings.. make you might find it handy as well =]
> On Feb 26, 2017, at 4:49 39PM, Reuben Martin <reube...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sunday, February 26, 2017 5:44:56 PM CST JD wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Cley Faye <cleyf...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> 2017-02-26 23:32 GMT+01:00 JD <jd1...@gmail.com>: >>>> Are there any flags that will let me playback an unfinished transcode? >>>> Reason I am asking is that if my various options in the transcode >>>> command >>>> did not yield what I like, then I would like to abort the transcode. >>> >>> mp4 files will never be playable without "finishing" them. But you can >>> interrupt the process at anytime with 'q'; that will properly close the >>> file so you can play it. >> >> Thanks - that is somewhat a panacea, especially if one >> is not 50% or more into the transcoding - so that issuing >> a 'q' will not lose too much is only say the transcoding is >> into 10 minutes of the video. >> >> Now how about ffplay? I mean is/are there options >> to ffplay that would allow the playing of the unfinsihed >> mp4 file (without quitting the trancoding)? >> > > Set the output format to flv. You can play flv before it’s finished encoding. > If you decide you want to keep it, you can dump the video and audio streams > from the flv into an mp4 file. (generally only takes a few seconds). > > -Reuben > _______________________________________________ > ffmpeg-user mailing list > ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org > http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user > > To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email > ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe". _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".