[MPlayer-users] Using mplayer to access tv-card on remote server.

Ivo ivop at euronet.nl
Sun Oct 24 04:23:11 CEST 2004


On Sunday 24 October 2004 04:15, RC wrote:
> On the server: mencoder tv:// -tv (your options) -oac lavc -ovc lavc
> -lavcopts
> acodec=mp2:abitrate=128:vcodec=mpeg1video:vbitrate=1000:vstrict=-1 -o
> filename.avi
>
> On the client:  ssh user at host "cat filename.avi" | mplayer -

In my experience mpeg1video isn't an easy codec at all. Also, at 1000kbit, 
it won't look that great. I'd say, use vcodec=mpeg4. On my machine, it's 
faster than mpeg1video.

--Ivo




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