[MPlayer-users] tv card basics

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 01:58:08PM +0100, Gábor Lénárt wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 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.

Lossless nuv is good for this, but it barely compresses so it needs a
VERY fast and large hard drive. The lossy rtjpeg-based compression in
nuv has horrible quality, though, and makes it essentially impossible
to encode a good mpeg4 out of the recording later. :(

Rich