Could the mlt framework be a reasonable replacement for the ffmpeg transcoder?

[Kai Krakow]

Hello!

During the last days I worked with kdenlive a little bit and was
curious about the encoder/transcoding it uses. It seems that mlt is an
advanced ffmpeg-based transcoding frontend (plus many more features of
course, like non-linear video editing).

Does anyone have pointers that it could be used as RVideo transcoding
tool? I imagine that it could fix some of the ugly behaviour ffmpeg
has with its fluctuating command line interface and command line
output. Plus RVideo could be easily extended by "video editing"
capabilities like adding intros on the fly etc.

But maybe I got the point of mlt totally wrong.

Any ideas? Someone likes to work on it?

[Jon Dahl]

Interesting idea. Does the command-line interface expose all of MLT's
features? Want to post an example of a simple transcoding command
using MLT?