[MEncoder-users] cat /dev/video0 | mencoder - ...

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Bob Tennent <rdtennent <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I'm trying to pipe video-capture card output into mencoder as above.
> It works but not well (breaks up at every scene change). Is there a
> better way (other than saving the entire output as an mpg file and then
> mencoding from the file)?

mencoder tv://
ffmpeg -f v4l(2)

Carl Eugen