[MPlayer-users] tv card basics

[Gábor Lénárt]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 07:21:03PM -0500, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > Dunno, however, AMD K6-2 450MHz was enough for me to encode various TV
> > series into DivX with vcr in real time with an ooooooold bt848 based TV
> > tuner card. However my eyes far from perfect so maybe you're right :)
> 
> Well, sure you can with minimal options (keyint=0 and no vhq), but
> it's pointless since the resulting file will be huge (or else horrible
> quality) and you'll have to reencode later anyway. On a system like
> that it's best to encode with mjpeg or something simple to begin with
> and then transcode to mpeg4 later.

Yeah, or at least AFAIK NuppelVideo is for this purpose exactly, though I've
never tried or seen it.

- Gábor (larta'H)