[MPlayer-users] How to use mencoder as a "tivo"

[Jindrich Makovicka]

Manolis Tzanidakis wrote:

>Hello,
>I really enjoyed the thread "tv card basics" and I'm (almost)
>successfully using mencoder to record tv programs to divx with the
>following command :
>
># mencoder -tv on:driver=v4l:width=640:height=480:channel=$1 -ovc lavc
>-lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=650:vme=5 -vop pp=lb -oac mp3lame
>-lameopts vbr=0:br=64:aq=9:mode=3 -ofps 25 
>
>However this doesn't record any sound. I have connected tv card's audio
>out to my sblive's input (mixer tab: line) & I can hear audio with
>xawtv & mplayer -tv. Anyone knows how to also record audio ?
>
Can you record audio with any other audio recording app? Make sure that 
the recording volume is unmuted in the mixer, in sblive it's separated 
from the setting for the signal just passing through from line-in to output.

>Last but not least how can I tell mencoder to rec for a specified time,
>i.e. 40 mins ? I wanna run it w/ crontab to rec my favorite shows
>automatically...
>
-endpos 40:00

Regards,

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Jindrich Makovicka