On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 5:49 PM, 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 > Thanx a lot, Reuben!!! That's and excellent tip! _______________________________________________ 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".
