[MPlayer-users] trying to pipe mencoder to ffmpeg2theora

[Attila Kinali]

On Wed, 16 May 2007 12:33:03 +0200
Roman Haefeli <reduzierer at yahoo.de> wrote:

> if i do the exact same, but instead of piping the data writing it to a
> file, and read the file with ffmpeg2theora afterwards, it works. is that
> due to some limitation of the avi-container? should i take a different
> one for piping?

Yes. AVI header depends on the contents of the file,
ie mencoder cannot fill all header fields until it finished
encoding. As i hardly use mencoder, i cannot give you any advice
but to try one of the other supported output formats (iirc only mpeg)

			Attila Kinali
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