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On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 20:29 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> Hi! |
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> I'm currently trying to set up a personal video recorder in form of a |
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> headless server using mencoder and freevo. |
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> What I would like to do is watching the movie while mencoder is realtime |
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> encoding it to x264/vorbis in a Matroska container. |
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> I already tried it using sshfs. Unfortunately, the file is only read up |
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> to the point where it ended when playing it started. |
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> I don't know if NFS would behave better. |
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> Well, what I thought about was doing it like this: |
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> #!/bin/bash |
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> mencoder [...] -o - | tee video.mkv | stream-app |
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> So far it should work and vlc would be the natural choice for the |
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> streaming app. However, vlc seems unable to read from a pipe so I need |
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> something else. |
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> Can anyone give me a tip? maybe I missed an option in vlc or can someone |
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> propose an app that can be used instead? |
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> By the way: It's a 100MBit ethernet network without any switches or |
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> hubs. The machines are right next to each other. |
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> I hope it will be a 400 or even 500MBit net soon, but that's another |
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> topic ... |
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I just want to give an update in case someone plans something like |
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this: |
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NFS does not have the problem sshfs had - problem solved. |
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However, you can't navigate through files that mencoder did not yet |
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finish muxing. To be able to do so, you must tell mplayer to create a |
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new idx with -forceidx (just -idx might work as well and shouldn't harm |
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files that already contain an index but I haven't tested it yet). |
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