[MPlayer-users] Support for PALM norm in TV capturing?

[Jose Romildo Malaquias]

On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 09:38:17PM +0100, Jindrich Makovicka wrote:
> Jose Romildo Malaquias wrote:
> 
> >It does work for me with mplayer. Thanks for the patch. Maybe it
> >could make its way into the distribution.
> >
> >I would like very much to record tv programs using mencoder, but 
> >it also does not support the PALM norm, and the posted patch
> >does not seem to address it. Could anybody add support for
> >the PALM norm to mencoder?
> >
> MEncoder and MPleyer share the same v4l backend. Have you tried the 
> patched mencoder at all?

Yes, I have tried

  mencoder \
    -tv on:driver=v4l:device=/dev/video0:norm=palm:width=768:height=576 \
    -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=900 \
    -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=64 \
    -vop pp=lb,crop=720:540:24:18 \
    -o output.avi

which gives some error messsages. After removing the -vop option from
the command above, it works.

As I am new to mplayer, I do not know how to use it well yet. The above
command was based on an example from the manual. 

Another question: is it possible to watch TV while recording? How?

Thanks for the help.

Romildo
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Prof. José Romildo Malaquias        romildo at uber.com.br
Departamento de Computação       malaquias at iceb.ufop.br
Univ. Federal de Ouro Preto  http://uber.com.br/romildo