[MEncoder-users] View mencoder actions

[Kasper Bonne]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:39, James <jam at tigger.ws> wrote:
> I do run mplayer on the newly created file with about 1 sec delay and I've been
> told that is not acceptable.

Can anyone tell me why this would be unacceptable? I've done that many
many times and never had a problem. As long as the "viewer" (e.g.,
mplayer) only reads from the file I don't see any problems.

> Any suggestions on how to do this please.

You could also try some combination of named pipes and tee(1).

/Kasper