ffmpeg in pipe with mencoder

[marcorocchini]

Hi

considering my source: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39871584/C0020.mxf

and considering I would like to transcode it in mjpeg using a specific vfw codec installed on my pc (picvideo Mjpeg codec, pvmjpg40.dll) I use mencoder as this:

mencoder c0020.mxf -ovc vfw -xvfwopts codec=pvmjpg40.dll -nosound -o output.avi

but I have a little problem:

using mencoder I loss timecode in ouput.avi file (FFMPEG can keep timecode but cannot encode using PicVideoMjpeg VFW).

Is there a way to use ffmpeg/mencoder in pipe so ffmpeg can use mencoder only at the intermediate level? ffmpeg should use the output of the mencoder but the output file is hoewver write by ffmpeg, so I can keep the timecode of the original c0020.mxf (TimeCode_FirstFrame : 01:34:21:15)

Is it possible to do it also with vdub.exe?

thanks!

[poisondeathray]

metadata isn't retained when you frameserve or pipe

[marcorocchini]

oh however thanks