Is it possible to play an output video file from an encoder as it's being encoded?

Question

I have a video file, and I need to encode it as H264/AVC and feed to client via HTTP. What i need is that i player at client side can play back the video as it is being encoded.

Answer 1

I also tried this same thing earlier with ffmpeg, but could not succeed. But with vlc I was able to download, transcode and stream on Android simultaneously, though with rtsp. I did not try with http progressive method. I used mpeg4 video codec, mpega audio codec in vlc.