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

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

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

>  >|>| -cache 102400 -cache-min 3
>  >|
>  >|Yes!  This does the trick. Thanks.
> 
> After more testing, it's become clear that the basic idea isn't
> workable: even in the best circumstances (nothing else running),
> encoding takes much more than "real time";

There are numerous options to decrease encoding time, please post your command
line.

Carl Eugen