[MEncoder-users] using mf:// with stdin

[Morris Beverly]

RC wrote:

>On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:18:35 -0400
>Morris Beverly <morrisb at avpresentations.com> wrote:
>
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>>I've tried a lot of variations like  mf:///dev/stdin, mf://-, 
>>mf://*.jpg, not using mf:// at all, all with pretty much the same
>>result:
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>
>Don't use mf at all.  It's not for streams.
>
Thanks for staying with me on this.  I've tried a number of variations, 
below, and they all ended with the output at the bottom of message.  I 
wonder if something is not happening with cat going into mencoder 
properly because of theoutput  line

Reading from stdin...
[file] File size is -1 bytes

thanks again,

morris


cat pix/test2.jpg | mencoder - -demuxer mf -vc ijpg -mf type=jpeg:fps=30 
-ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg -v -o cattest_1.avi
cat pix/test2.jpg | mencoder - -demuxer mf -vc ijpg  -ovc lavc -lavcopts 
vcodec=mjpeg -v -o cattest_1.avi
cat pix/test2.jpg | mencoder - -demuxer mf  -mf type=jpeg:fps=30 -ovc 
lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg -v -o cattest_1.avi



MEncoder dev-SVN-r22780-4.1.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Genuine Intel(R) CPU           T2400  @ 1.83GHz (Family: 6, Model: 
14, Stepping: 8)
CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2

Configuration:
init_freetype
get_path('font/font.desc') -> '/home/morris/.mplayer/font/font.desc'
font: can't open file: /home/morris/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
Using MMX (with tiny bit MMX2) Optimized OnScreenDisplay
Reading from stdin...
[file] File size is -1 bytes
STREAM: [file] -
STREAM: Description: File
STREAM: Author: Albeu
STREAM: Comment: based on the code from ??? (probably Arpi)
success: format: 0  data: 0x0 - 0x0
MF file format detected.
============ Sorry, this file format is not recognized/supported 
=============
=== If this file is an AVI, ASF or MPEG stream, please contact the 
author! ===
Cannot open demuxer.

Exiting...