[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] v4l capture RC1(?)
Magnus Pfeffer
magnus.pfeffer at epost.de
Fri Aug 9 21:43:47 CEST 2002
Am Freitag, 9. August 2002 18:10 schrieb Jindrich Makovicka:
> Greetings,
> this patch adds the following features to V4L module:
Hi,
> - multithreaded audio/video buffering (I know mplayer crew hates threads
> but it seems to me as the only way of doing reliable a/v capture)
> - a/v timebase synchronization (sample count vs. gettimeofday)
> - "immediate" mode support for mplayer
> - fixed colorspace stuff - RGB?? and YUY2 modes now work as expected
> - native ALSA audio capture (optional - just #define ALSA_CAPTURE)
After a little bit of fiddling with the parameters (to get rid of blue faces)
I used
mencoder -tv
on:driver=v4l:width=480:height=576:chanlist=europe-west:channel=E7:outfmt=i420
-vc rawi420 -oac mp3lame -lameopts mode=3 -ovc lavc -lavcopts
vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=3000:vqmax=10 -pp 0x20000
And I got a perfectly synched, high-quality and de-interlaced AVI file.
Absolutely astonishing.
My cpu is only a 850 MHz Athlon, so grabbing at higher resolution than SVCD
would lead to dropped frames, but hey, I do not need more than that (but due
to slightly bad reception grabbing less lines than the full 576 pal lines
leads to stripes in the picture)
> I tested it on a ~100min movie captured at 720x540 to mpeg4. There were
> no dropped frames and the image quality was quite impressive, certainly
> better than using avifile & xvid. No problems with a/v sync.
I am stunned! This is by far the best and easiest-to-use video capture I have
so far found for Linux. And I tried all the usual and not-so-usual suspects
(ffmpeg, vcr, nvrec, nuppelvideo, zapping, xawtv).
Thanks for this contribution! It is wonderful.
Magnus
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