[MEncoder-users] How to best optimise the CPU load while grabbing

[Joey Parrish]

On 4/21/07, Levente Novák <lnovak at dragon.unideb.hu> wrote:
> I have the following problem: I would like to decrease the CPU load on
> my system wile grabbing from v4l2, without having to buy a new mobo/CPU.
> I have actually a Celeron D 3.06 MHz, 512 MB of DDR2 533 MHz RAM and a
> SATA I hard drive. Target format would be raw DV (if only it would work
> under MEncoder...), or DV Avi,or MPEG2, both interlaced.

Try lower bitrate for output, lower resolution (can decrease size of
memcopies), or cheaper codecs.

--Joey