[MPlayer-users] Using streamer and mencoder with a pipe ?

[Felix Buenemann]

On Saturday 18 May 2002 18:02, Renaud Pons wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hello everybody
>
> I begin to play with tv and movie on my linux box and I would like to
> record tv. Since the 'mencoder' video4linux driver cannot deal with
> sound, I tried to use 'streamer' (from http://bytesex.org/xawtv/).
>
> So 'streamer' records video and audio from v4l to jpeg movie. Then
> 'mencoder' encodes the movie to divx. It works quite well and now I
> would like to use 'streamer' and 'mencoder' via "normal" or named
> pipes (to avoid using big disk space). I don't know if it's impossible
> or if I did not find the right syntax yet but I can't do it! Did
> someone has a example of working command line?

Hmm doesn't streamer <youroptionssoitwritestostdout> |mplayer <youroptions> - 
work?

>
> Thanks in advance.

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Best Regards,
        Atmos
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