[MEncoder-users] Re:

[Jonathan Lundberg]

 wrote:

>>What I have to do is grab from the tv capture card to filename.avi, and
>>while it's still grabbing from the
>>tv card, run mencoder against filename.avi to also produce an identical
>>file at a lower bitrate.  My
>>problem is that the second mencoder runs faster than real time, catches
>>up with the end of the file,
>>and then exits while the primary encode is still running.
>>    
>>
>
>What about using pipes and tee, something like this (I cannot test
>this as I currently have no Linux available):
>
># make a named pipe
>mkfifo testfilename.avi
>
># start capturing
>captureprog | tee testfilename.avi | mencoder settings-for-high-quality
>cat testfilename.avi | mencoder settings-for-low-quality
>
>tee splits the input from the capturing program and writes it to both
>stdout and the named pipe. I think something like this should work,
>but I am not shure if mencoder supports encoding from stdin :-)
>
>  
>
Interesting..  mencoder _is_ the captureprog though...

J.


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