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

[Bob Tennent]

 >| do the settings (slow, ..., fast, ...) refer to the desired encoding
 >| rate or to the speed of the processor?

For the record, these settings refer to encoding speed. By increasing
the settings from medium, I determined that "fast" wasn't fast enough
but "faster" was. My problem seems solved. The problems with the
documentation remain.