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