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

[Reimar Döffinger]

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