[MEncoder-users] Viewing while capturing

[Ian Collier]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 06:42:40PM +0200, you wrote:
> mencoder tv:// -tv
> device=/dev/video1:input=2:height=576:width=720:normid=13 -vf pp=fd
> -aspect 16/9 -ovc x264 -oac pcm -o - >(tee test.avi -)>(mplayer
> -cache 512 -)
> 
> But that did not work as the mplayer window doesn't pop up and the
> terminal output is clogged with binary.

This seems to work to some extent:

mencoder ...options... -o - -really-quiet | \
 tee /tmp/test.avi | \
 mplayer -cache 512 -

I think your <(...)  syntax perhaps doesn't do what you think; also,
mencoder spams stdout with messages (which will end up in the output
file) unless you tell it to be quiet.

imc