[MEncoder-users] Is mencoder working sequentially?

[Alexander Strasser]

Alexey wrote ( On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 05:10:13PM +0100 ):
> 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.

As far as i can see it should work well. But i heard there might be
problems with av-sync when feeding input to mplayer on stdin.
So you might consider trying mplayer cvs version which got multiple
file support lately.

  Alex (beastd)