On a sunny day (Fri, 03 Feb 2006 10:36:52 -0500) it happened Boney Tee
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My problem is video codec support right out the box an MP3 decoding.
Dunno about 'right out of the box' but I do nice things with ffmpeg.
Did you try that?
H264 codec works its seems, there are amny codecs in ffmpeg.
use it in a pipe.

(And mplayer is build on ffmpeg for example).