Hi, I want to know if it is possible to feed a ffmpeg conversion at the time a file is being created by another program. I mean, I'm working with mp4live, which is capturing and recording a mp4 video to a shared folder hosted by another computer. At the same time, I want to start ffmpeg at this computer to do some conversions (such as size, bitrate and framerate adaptations). These conversions must be done in real time, because the file(s) generated by ffmpeg will be live-accessed by clients (using Darwin Streaming Server which accesses these files by previously generated sdp files). My goal is to create a live content-based adaptation mechanism so that clients with less process power can access video without any problem. Because of this, the parameters of the conversion will be passed to ffmpeg as soon as the client requests for some video with a specific configuration (so, I cannot specify staticaly a set of configurations to be generated by ffmpeg, it will have to be done on the fly) I have tried once using raw data produced by mp4live, I started the capturing and recording job, and then, I started the ffmpeg conversion. But I realized that ffmpeg seems to be faster then the broadcaster, so it finishes the conversion without waiting for more data. Is there a better way to do that without changing the source code of ffmpeg? Any ideas will be apreciated. Thanks very much. Manzato __________________________________________________ Converse com seus amigos em tempo real com o Yahoo! Messenger http://br.download.yahoo.com/messenger/