[MEncoder-users] Can you slow down mencoder?

[Jonathan Lundberg]

D Richard Felker III wrote:

>>Whats the cat for?... That's redundant
>>
>>This is very hackish, but it does work and I don't see a better solution.
>>You said your capture program is MEncoder, so:
>>
>>mkfifo input output1
>>mencoder tv:// -endpos 30:00 -o input -ovc raw -oac pcm &
>>cat input | tee output1 | mencoder - -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=100000 -oac pcm -o goodquality.avi &
>>    
>>
>
>Do NOT use cat here. All it will do is increase cpu usage. Instead:
>tee output1 < input | mencoder - -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=100000 -oac pcm -o goodquality.avi &
>  
>

Genius!
This appears to actually work.. thanks very much for the suggestions..

J.


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