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

[Levente Novák]

On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 22:08 -0500, Joey Parrish wrote:
> 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

Thanks, I am well aware of this. What I would know is whether there is
some magic :) switch or something else which could improve the CPU load
while grabbing with the same resolution and codecs I used.

Levente