[MEncoder-users] Autos shut off solution?

[Scott W. Larson]

The Wanderer wrote:
>
> If you just want to have the capture finish when the tape ends, that
> should (I think) happen automatically.

Unfortunately most of not all VCRs will continue to put out video after
the tape ends so there's no way for mencoder to know when the tape has
ended. You'll even encode a minute or two of "REWIND" since most VCRs
automatically rewind the tape at the end.