[FFmpeg-user] Growing file processing

[Moritz Barsnick]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 15:00:31 +0100, g.cemeli at woody-technologies.com wrote:
> To summarize :
>   ffmpeg -i input.mxf growing.mkv
>   tail -c +1 -F growing.mkv ffmpeg -i - -c copy output.mkv
> works like a charm.
> You have to stop the 2nd instance to close the target file.

Cool! Thanks for the feedback - happens for too seldomly.

Moritz