I am trying to use mencoder in my little GUI to create VP8 encoded filtes. From what I see that support is not natively working (yet?). Anyhow, there are patches but I don't seem to be able to apply come of them. Decoder support appears to be there. So I am trying to pipe the output into ivfenc via something like this (this is Nic's modified version accepting pipes). mencoder -dvd-device "D:\ElephantsDream\VIDEO_TS" dvd://1 -ovc raw -noskip -vc mpeg12 -vf scale,format=i420 -forcedsubsonly -nosound -mc 0 -lavdopts threads=8 -really-quiet -fps 25 -aspect 1.7775:1 -of rawvideo -o - \ | ivfenc --passes=1 --pass=1 --target-bitrate=1500 --width=720 --height=576 --timebase=1/25 --i420 - "D:\Encoding Temp\Title_1_1-8.vp8" Ivfenc complains that the output is not in Y4M format. I have to claim utter ignorance here but I am told that -of rawvideo does not produce a y4m skeleton whatever that is. Do you know how to talk it into this? /re