[MPlayer-users] trying to pipe mencoder to ffmpeg2theora

[Nico Sabbi]

Roman Haefeli wrote:

> i tried what you suggested. i replaced the regular
>files by named pipes (mkfifo stream.[wav|yuv]). but then, when both
>commandline were started, on both ends the commands just waited and
>obviously no data has passed. i tried every possible order to start the
>commands. how is that supposed to work? do i need to create special
>pipes?
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>roman 
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pipes work like short pipes :)
you need 2 working processes to use them: one to write (mencoder &) and
one to read (ffmpeg2theora) working at the same time
 
 
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