[MEncoder-users] How to pipe mencoder+ffmpeg?

[Nico Sabbi]

Xie Bo wrote:

> Hello,
> AFAIK, ffmpeg doesn't recognize my VCD .dat file but mencoder can
> recognize it. Then I want to pipe mencoder and ffmpeg. I mean I want
> to use mencoder to read .dat and decode it to raw video data and use
> ffmpeg to encode the piped raw video data to a .3gp file. Would you be
> so kind to tell me how to do it? (the command like "mencoder a.dat -of
> rawvideo ... | ffmpeg -i - ... .3gp") Thanks!
> Best Regards,
> Xie Bo
>
>  
>
if you don't want audio && use mencoder from cvs you don't need pipes:

mencoder -of lavf -lavfopts format=3gp -o x.3gp -nosound -ovc lavc
-lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 meneguzzi