[MEncoder-users] capture: synchronization problems

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Saturday, 19 March 2005 at 20:52, newsgrabber at poczta.onet.pl wrote:
> THANKS FOR HELP. 
> 
> although the problem was somewhere else. I tried to look for some other 
> package for mdk. 
> 
> It seems there must be some bug in MEncoder 1.0pre6-3.4.1,  while
> version 1.0pre6-3.2.2 WORKS JUST FINE.

If that's true, there might be a bug in gcc-3.4.1, because the code is
exactly the same. The part after '-' in MPlayer/MEncoder version string is
the compiler version that was used to build it.

> BTW: I'm going to record the material with pcm audio and mjpeg (or nuv)
> video. I think mjpeg gives a pretty good material for further encoding
> into DVD or CVCD. Or do you know something better? 

You might want to try one of the losless codecs, if you've got enough
space.

> Another questions would be: where (and if) should I apply deinterlacing
> - the target is TV, but possibly PC. Should I deinterlace while
> capturing or while re-encoding? And what filter does the best job? (I
> don't care about time of re-encoding). 

If your target is TV, then you're better off not deinterlacing at all.
It's easy enough to deinterlace at playback time on PC and you won't lose
quality by encoding deinterlaced material.

R.

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