On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Levente Novák wrote: > mencoder -your_options_here -o file.avi > > then > > tail -f file.avi | mplayer - Adding "-c +0" makes the tail command more reliable. I'll occasionally use: tail -f -c +0 file.avi | mplayer -nosound -benchmark - to keep an eye on video as it's encoded. Not very CPU-friendly, though.