> thanks. The command i was running was > ffmpeg -f rawvideo -s 480x480 -r 29 -i fifodir/vidout -f yuv4mpegpipe - > which was having no problems flooding my terminal, i.e outputting to stdin, That's not the whole command. There should be a `| yuvscaler ... | mpeg2enc ...` at the end of that, too. do you have yuvscaler installed? -Chris