[MEncoder-users] Is mencoder working sequentially?

[Alexey]

Thank your for the answer but you didnt answer my question. Will the
xvid codec be able to encode the videostream properly? Can it handle the
sequential input?

Regards

Alexey

On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 17:22 +0100, Hans-Carl Oberdalhoff wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 6. März 2005 17:10 schrieb Alexey:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > will mencoder work with xvid in two pass mode correctly if I use
> > something like () :
> >
> > cat *.VOB | mencoder xvid:pass1 -
> > cat *.VOB | mencoder xvid:pass2 -
> >
> > I wonder whether mencoder is working sequentially throught the VOB files
> > or if it accesses them randomly. In the latter case my method shouldnt
> > work as far as I understand it.
> 
> MEncoder will take the input in the same order, as the cat-util will present 
> it.
> This means you should explicitly name your files, if you want to be sure about 
> the order, like
> 
> cat file1.vob file2.vob file3.vob | mencoder
> 
> mencoder will not know about the files (or their order) this way AT ALL. It 
> will just receive a concatenated data-stream. (which is the purpose of 
> "cat").
> 
> Greetings,
> hco
> 
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