[MPlayer-users] tv card basics (summary)

Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri gsbarbieri at yahoo.com.br
Wed Nov 27 15:20:02 CET 2002


 --- Marcin Bukat <wodz at soliton.ch.pw.edu.pl> escreveu: 
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi!
> I've found this thread usfull since I would like to buy tv card. So 
> after reading this I can imagine that:
> 1. Vendor dosn't realy matter. All Conexant bt878 cards gives similar
> 
> quality of grabing tv. But you've mention about different tuner
> quality. 
> Which one would you prefer? Philips, Samsung?
> 2. Grabing 1/2 pal is what such card can *realy* do.
> 3. It is recommended to firs video with something not so CPU
> intensive 
> (mjpg or another one is better?) 'on the fly' and than reencode to
> divX.
> How many disk space do I need to record ~90min movie in this way? Is 
> Celeron 1.1GHz sufficient? What is quality of recorded material?
> 

I encode and crop the borders with a Pentium II 300mhz ~ 60% CPU. It's
encoded at 320x240 MPEG1 (lavcodec).

> Would someone be so kind and put a few samples somewhere with small 
> comment how this samples were obtained?
> 

Try various combinations of vlelim, vcelim... like Richard mentioned
some time ago (thread was "insane compulsive ... mencoder options")

Remember to crop the borders if u get noise.

> Thanks in advance
> wodz
> 

Gustavo

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