[MPlayer-users] TV Capture

[yardbird]

Hi,

On Saturday 22 March 2003 17:13, Yan Seiner wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
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> I read in the FAQ that sound support for TV is broken/unimplemented with
> mencoder under linux.  Since I plan on using a BT848 TV card for video
> capture, can I assume that mencode won't work with that either?

I use mencoder with my bt848 and everything is ok, no audio sync problems or 
other wierd stuff. I use an external cable to grab audio: from TVAudioOUT to 
Line-in of the audio card. Just make sure that you have selected line-in as 
audio source  for grabbing (a mixer does the job). 
I'm very satisfied with my tv-capture experience with mencoder :-) I usually 
grab the video with very high quality settings (like vqscale=2 or 3) and at 
768x576 resolution. Then I apply denoising filters (like pp=lb and 
denoise3d), scale down the movie and adjust the bitrate so that it will fit 
on one or two cds. A major problem was advertisement: it used to be difficult 
to cut and past different video streams, but now with the ogm file format 
(and related utils: ogmmerge, ogmsplit, ogmcat, etc.) it is pretty easy to do 
the job.
Hope this helps. Best regards,

	francesco