diff -r 02ba1859ddc0 -r e51af4d0caf5 gmyth-stream/server/0.3/plugins/transcoders/gmencoder.py
--- a/gmyth-stream/server/0.3/plugins/transcoders/gmencoder.py	Fri Aug 03 21:42:55 2007 +0100
+++ b/gmyth-stream/server/0.3/plugins/transcoders/gmencoder.py	Mon Aug 13 22:54:55 2007 +0100
@@ -27,8 +27,24 @@
     proc = None
 
     def __init__(self, params):
+        self.status = 0
         transcoder.Transcoder.__init__(self, params)
         self.opts = []
+        self.opts.append (self.gmencoder_path)
+        self.opts.append ("-d")
+        self._parser_params ()
+
+        outfile = self.params_first("outfile", "")
+
+        if outfile != "":
+            path = os.path.join(sys.path[0], ".transcoded", outfile)
+            self._insert_param("-o", "file://%s" % path)
+        else:
+            self._insert_param ("-o", "fd://%d" % outfd.fileno())
+            self.opts.append ("-c")
+
+        cmd = " ".join(self.opts)
+
     # __init__()
 
     def _insert_param (self, name, value):
@@ -50,21 +66,6 @@
     # _parse_params
 
     def start(self, outfd):
-        self.status = 0
-        self.opts.append (self.gmencoder_path)
-        self.opts.append ("-d") 
-        self._parser_params ()
-
-        outfile = self.params_first("outfile", "")
-
-        if outfile != "":
-            path = os.path.join(sys.path[0], ".transcoded", outfile)
-            self._insert_param("-o", "file://%s" % path)
-        else:
-            self._insert_param ("-o", "fd://%d" % outfd.fileno())
-            self.opts.append ("-c")
-
-        cmd = " ".join(self.opts)
         self.log.info(self.tid, "GMencoder: %s" % cmd)
 
         try:
@@ -75,23 +76,18 @@
             outfd.write("Error: GMencoder: %s" % e)
             return False
 
-        if outfile:
-            outfd.write("OK   ")
-
         try:
             while (self.proc and self.proc.poll() == None):
                 r, w, x = select.select([self.proc.stdout], [], [], 0)
                 if self.proc.stdout in r:
                     progress = self.proc.stdout.readline()
                     if (progress.find ("PROGRESS") >= 0):
-                        self.log.info (self.tid, "%s" % progress)
                         self.status = progress.split (":")[1]
         except Exception, e:
             self.log.error(self.tid, "Problems handling data: %s" % e)
             return False
 
         self.status = 100;
-        self.log.info(self.tid, "OK: Done")
         return True
     # start()
 
@@ -100,7 +96,6 @@
         if self.proc:
             self.log.info(self.tid, "Stopped GMencoder plugin")
             try:
-                self.proc.stdin.write("QUIT\n")
                 os.kill(self.proc.pid, signal.SIGKILL)
                 self.proc.wait()
             except Exception, e:
@@ -109,4 +104,10 @@
             self.proc = None
     # stop()
 
+    def get_progress(self):
+        return self.status
+
+    def get_lenght(self):
+        return -1
+
 # TranscoderGMencoder