I am so weak on shell scripting - and I do try and I wear out the info pages (way too many on bash)... how do I redirect output to input... I am trying to pipe output of mplayer into ffmpeg and I can't get my head around it since ffmpeg needs an input file... ffmpeg -i some_file_somewhere outputfile_somewhere (or off the X11 display which doesn't seem useful at all.) ideally, I would like to do something like this... mplayer dvd://$TITLE -chapter "$X-$X" -dumpstream -dumpfile "$X-$NAME.vob" | \ ffmpeg -i "$X-$NAME.vob" -s 360x240 -ab 128 "$X-$NAME.mp4" but even better, I would love to not write the intermediate.vob file at all. I just want to rip my music DVD's to my iPod (by the way...the 360x240 at 128 bps audio from high quality DVD gives really great quality iPod video/audio for a very small footprint). bones? Craig --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss