On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Dragon_at_work wrote: > Your scripting is a much better idea!
I came up with that approach a long time ago when sections of a long capture needed different y4mshift parameters. > > read junk > Does junk refer to stdio in this case? To "stdin" to be precise. That just read a line from stdin into a variable (which is never used). > > (lav2yuv file1 ...; \ > > lav2yuv file2 ... | skip1.sh; \ > > lav2yuv file3 ... | skip1.sh) | mpeg2enc ... > So the only limitation of this method is ARG_MAX? The only limitation is the amount of disk space you have to store the shell script. ARG_MAX has nothing to do with it - you're only passing 1 file argument per lav2yuv command and a few switches. You can have as many ';' separated commands as you want - each command line has its own argument set. Steven Schultz ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users