[MPlayer-users] trying to pipe mencoder to ffmpeg2theora

[RC]

On Wed, 16 May 2007 15:25:41 +0200
Roman Haefeli <reduzierer at yahoo.de> wrote: 
 
> the only program i know to encode theora is ffmpeg2theora.

There are several others.  ffmpeg2theora is quite new actually. 
encoder_example in libtheora-(ver)/tools/ works fine.

> ffmpeg2theora cannot acces my audio-device. mencoder can access
> everything (v4l and alsa), but there is noway to pipe the stream in a
> format, that is understood by ffmpeg2theora. 

Atilla said to try mencoder with an output format other than AVI for
ffmpeg2theora.

Though, probably the bigger problem is that MPlayer/mencoder has never
been able to supress all of it's own status output to stdout.  You
really need to use a fifo instead.