[MPlayer-users] encoding from stdin

[Loren Merritt]

On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Mikhail Ramendik wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'd like to use mencoder to encode a DV stream that comes from ieee1394.
> dvgrab can ouput it to stdout, so I want mencoder to take it from stdin.
>
> How do I tell it to read from stdin instead of a file?
>
> Yours, Mikhail Ramendik

Like any well behaved program:
cat stuff | mencoder - ...

Be warned, however, that mencoder requires seeking to properly decode some
formats, so encoding from a pipe doesn't always work.

--Loren Merritt