On Thursday 20 June 2002 16:19, you wrote: Many Thanks Ralph, by the way is Slooten, Dutch by any chance. > > > my spare partition and subdirectory is, > > /mnt/ext2-vol6/downloads2/divx > > I have a couple gigs to spare.
> ==================== > Log into your console as root ("su") > > ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/dvd > > exit reports file exits ====================== > > > > "mencoder -dvd 1 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=633 > -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=96:cbr -o Matrix.avi" > > I couldn't wait untill lame + libraties were installed,to try it, So I put up a terminal and proceeded with just this command. It all looks very impressive. However I haven't a clue where the output is going, I don't even know what the name of the file is, in order to look for it. Isn't there some way I could pipe this to my chosen directory /mnt/ext2-vol6/downloads2/divx. How about a | (pipe) or a > redirect , or something. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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