[MEncoder-users] on-the fly encoding of DV-camera

Reimar Döffinger Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de
Tue Nov 21 15:25:25 CET 2006


Hello,
On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 12:42:33PM +0100, Hauke Fuhrmann wrote:
[...]
> I try something like
> dvgrab file
> mencoder file ...
> 
> This works fine in these successive steps. Especially the encoding takes
> only half real-time, so I assume the PC is fast enough to do it
> on-the-fly. But it does not work in a piped mode:
> dvgrab | mencoder ... -

I am not sure that the DV demuxer can handle piped data. Does
cat file | mencoder ... -
work?
Also try using a large -cache value (maybe -cache 20480).

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger



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