[MEncoder-users] Piping from mplayer to ffmpeg

[Nico Sabbi]

Luke wrote:

>Dear All,
>
>I would like to pipe data from mplayer to ffmpeg. I would like to use
>mplayer as a filtering tool and reader since it recognizes a great
>number of media files and ffmpeg as an encoder - specifically I am
>interested in generating m4v files (they pefectly fit mp4creator!!).
>I realize that ffmpeg has a capability to read data from a pipe. I
>couldn't however find a way to
>feed it in this way with some uncompressed avi or other format that
>mplayer could produce. Maybe it is better to use mencoder?? Which do
>you think is better.
>
>  
>

mencoder -of rawvideo -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:... -nosound -o 
file.m4v