[MEncoder-users] Preview while encoding

[Levente Novák]

On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 01:58 -0700, RC wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Jun 2008 01:47:35 -0700 (PDT)
> Avishay Orpaz <avishorp at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Is it possible to make MEncoder show a small monitor window, even
> > updating once per several frames?
> 
> No, but you can just play the file mencoder is writing, at any time.

E.g.:

mencoder -your_options_here -o file.avi

then

tail -f file.avi | mplayer -

Hope this helps,

Levente