[MPlayer-users] MEncoder: Low frame rate on capture from tv

[Carsten Schultz]

Hi!

On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 08:58:45PM -0500, Anurag Mehra wrote:
> This mail is to seek help for a very unexpected problem. When I capture
> from a v4l source like tv tuner the frame rate is really low:

That does not quite sound like the problem I had, but you can
nevertheless try the following:

* Use a cvs version from this year.
* Use `mplayer -tv on' with `-v' and look for a line like 
  buf: size=8519680, frames=4
* What is the number of frames that MPlayer reports?  1 would be bad,
  2 ok in principle, but I had problems with it, 4 is better.  This
  number depends on your v4l-driver.  For example, I have added
  options bttv gbuffers=4
  to /etc/modules.conf.

Hope that helps,

Carsten

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