[MPlayer-users] regressions & requests

[Barton Bosch]

D Richard Felker III wrote:

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> but it's irrelevant right now since you can only seek to keyframes and
> since mencoder is hopelessly broken in many other ways.
> 
> 
>>- feature request: when the encoder detects black (or, more generically,
>>  uniformly colored and possibly dark) frames, automatically make the
>>  first frame in such a series an i-frame. this would help cutting
>>  commercials on stations that do soft-blends.
> 
> 
> mencoder is really not the tool you want for tv capture...

What would you suggest as better options?  I just got a tuner card
and have been checking around but I haven't found anything that is
significantly better.


Thanks,

Barton