[MEncoder-users] Is mencoder working sequentially?

[D Richard Felker III]

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

NEVER cat multiple files to mencoder to encode!
In fact never cat files to mencoder at all. Because it can't seek it
will cause weird behavior and possibly a/v desync.

Either:

1) Leave the vobs in the same structure they are on the DVD, and use
   -dvd-device /path/to/vobs dvd://[titleno] to encode!

2) Use latest cvs and do mencoder ... *.vob (be sure to put all the
   options before *.vob if you want them to apply to all files)

Rich