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<pre wrap="">What I have to do is grab from the tv capture card to filename.avi, and
while it's still grabbing from the
tv card, run mencoder against filename.avi to also produce an identical
file at a lower bitrate. My
problem is that the second mencoder runs faster than real time, catches
up with the end of the file,
and then exits while the primary encode is still running.
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What about using pipes and tee, something like this (I cannot test
this as I currently have no Linux available):
# make a named pipe
mkfifo testfilename.avi
# start capturing
captureprog | tee testfilename.avi | mencoder settings-for-high-quality
cat testfilename.avi | mencoder settings-for-low-quality
tee splits the input from the capturing program and writes it to both
stdout and the named pipe. I think something like this should work,
but I am not shure if mencoder supports encoding from stdin :-)
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Interesting.. mencoder _is_ the captureprog though...<br>
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J.<br>
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