[MPlayer-users] Re: mencoder video card recommendation

[Tobias Diedrich]

Martin Collins wrote:

> Folk on the mjpeg-tools list swear by the Canopus ADVC-100. That will
> give you DV which is editable and takes 12GB an hour.
> You use dvgrab to capture and kino to edit: http://kino.schirmacher.de/
> For creating DVDs mjpeg-tools or transcode may be better choices than
> mencoder.

If you use a TV capture card, mencoder has the advantage of built-in
video filters (i.e. denoise3d) you can apply on the uncompressed video
before compressing it to mjpeg or keyframe only mpeg.  The downside is
that libavcodec doesn't support yuv422 for mjpeg/mpeg.

Creating DVD-compatible mpeg2 also works with mencoder/libavcodec, but
may be a bit challenging due to the lack of presets and all that tunable
parameters.

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