[vdr] Re: vdr 1.1.X and mencoder

[Steffen Barszus <st_barszus@gmx.de>]

On Thursday 26 September 2002 00:12, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using vdr 1.1.X for recording and mencoder 0.90pre7 for
> DivX encoding. Mencoder is called in the following way:
>
> cat 0*.vdr | mencoder ... -
>
> This way mencoder can't detect the correct input file format
> and aborts. Calling
>
> mencoder ... 001.vdr
>
> instead works correctly. I think this problem is new with
> vdr 1.1.X because older recordings can be converted by the
> first command line.
>
> A workaround is to concatenate the *.vdr files and call
> mencoder with the resulting file, but this requires too
> much disk space and is very slow.
>
> Thanks for help,
> Bernd

So have you tried to use a named pipe ? 

mkfifo video.fifo 
cat 0*.vdr > video.fifo
and on an other console 

mencoder video.fifo  <options> 

should be worth a try since mencoder seems to work

Steffen