[MPlayer-users] Can mencoder write partial files while encoding?

[Ryan Voots]

well since it is tv shows its too bad that you couldn't detect when
commercials are going to break it apart then, but i think that is
besides the point of your question

On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 10:34, Rainer Hantsch wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
> 
> What I am really wondering about is:
> Can mencoder record and save automatically into multiple files of given
> maximum size?
> 
> I want to record longer TV shows, and this gives huge files, because mencoder
> writes the whole baby into one big file. (I got many hints on how to live with
> these, but this is not what I really want - thanks again here.)
> 
> Instead, it would be very much smarter when mencoder could get passed a
> maximum filesize, and whenever this is reached, it will start a new file on
> the fly, with an increasing numbering on the end.
> 
> -> This question was not answered until now, but would be the only
>    _intelligent_ solution at all. All other solutions are complicated,
>    need a lot of work and disk space, and do not make life really easier.
> 
> mfg
> 
>   Ing. Rainer Hantsch
> 
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