[MPlayer-users] Jumpy AVIs when encoding from TV tuner

[Richard Dymond]

Jason said:

>Just a thought but could it be tied to you using mjpeg encoding?  I've
>noticed mjpeg writes to the disk more often than going straight to
>mpeg4/mpeg3 encoding, perhaps you could try encoding with that too
>see if you get the frame jumps.

>Just a thought, encoding into divx4/5 works perfectly here on a
>athlon 1.4g with ATI bttv card.

I use mjpeg so that I can edit the result afterwards with the mjpegtools
utilities. My system is more than up to the task of real-time
mjpeg-encoding - DMA is enabled and all - so excessive/frequent writes
to disk should not be a problem.

However, I'll give mpeg4 a go, and see what happens. If the result's OK,
it would indicate that there's a problem with the mjpeg encoder.

Richard