[MPlayer-users] Encoding DVB-T to MPEG

[Kevin Davies]

Hi,

I have really tried to find the right options for this but mencoder is quite
confusing to me. 
I normally use two pass xvid encoding for converting captures of DVB-T
transport streams. 
In this case I want to encode V4l transport stream directly to mpeg if
possible.  

I effectively want to real-time encode broadcast quality mpeg, well as close
as we can 
get and I don't know how to do it. Source will be a DVB-T transport stream.
This is not a 
HD recording, only SD. It will be played back on widescreen television. 
This is Australian DVB-T television. 

My questions are 

a) Is this possible?
b) What is the best way to do this? 
c) Would mpeg or avi be a better choice?

Below is the details on the input stream.

mencoder -tv driver=v4l "World Cup - Germany vs Costa Rica-20060610-0157.ts"
-o crap.avi
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 Willamette; Xeon Foster (Family: 15, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags: Type: 15 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2

TS file format detected.
DEMUX OPEN, AUDIO_ID: -1, VIDEO_ID: -1, SUBTITLE_ID: -2,
PROBING UP TO 2000000, PROG: 0
VIDEO MPEG2(pid=161)AUDIO MPA(pid=81) NO SUBS (yet)!  PROGRAM N. 0
Opened TS demuxer, audio: 50(pid 81), video: 10000002(pid 161)...POS=7520,
PROBE=2000000
VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x576  (aspect 3)  25.000 fps  6000.0 kbps (750.0 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:29  fourcc:0x10000002  size:720x576  fps:25.00  ftime:=0.0400

Regards

Kevin