How to use pipe in ffmpeg within c#

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Drawing;
using System.IO;

namespace PipeFfmpeg
{
    class Program
    {
        public static void Video(int bitrate, int fps, string outputfilename)
        {
            Process proc = new Process();

            proc.StartInfo.FileName = @"ffmpeg.exe";
            proc.StartInfo.Arguments = String.Format("-f image2pipe -i pipe:.bmp -maxrate {0}k -r {1} -an -y {2}",
                bitrate, fps, outputfilename);
            proc.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
            proc.StartInfo.RedirectStandardInput = true;
            proc.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;

            proc.Start();

            for (int i = 0; i < 500; i++)
            {
                using (var ms = new MemoryStream())
                {
                    using (var img = Image.FromFile(@"lena.png"))
                    {
                        img.Save(ms, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Bmp);
                        ms.WriteTo(proc.StandardInput.BaseStream);
                    }
                }
            }            
        }

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Video(5000, 10, "lena.mp4");
        }
    }
}

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