[MPlayer-users] low volume problem: mencoder tv:// to DVD or SVCD

[rcooley]

On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 03:32:51 -0500
Yusuf <yusufad at myrealbox.com> wrote:

> Equally bizarre with the Line control: there is only Line Play, and
> not Line Capture.  If I mute Line, I can't record it.  In Windoze
> (CLSB Mixer) there's no Line Capture either, only Analog Mix...

So, are you quite happy with your $100+ soundcard purchase now?  And, to
be clear, this is comming from the owner of multiple SBLive cards.

It's funny, though...  A $15 card does a better job at most things, than
an expensive card.  Also, the higher quality the soundcard, the harder
it is to get it working with the supposedly high-quality ALSA...  OSS
works better with my SBLive and other high-quality cards, in my
experience.

> Owwwww.  Well, I'll have to emulate that: "-endpos $SIZE" with a loop 
> monitoring the current file size, and starting a new mencoder a 
> milisecond before the current reachs $SIZE... 

I certainly wish you luck, but don't expect you'll have much...  You
can't have two programs reading from your TV-tuner card at the same
time, so your timing has to be perfect.  Plus, mencoder caches
video before it encodes, so -endpos with a size will likely disregard a
small ammount of video data on it's own, even if you are able to start a
seperate instance immediately after the first one quits.