[MEncoder-users] Converting video8 to dv format

[Victor]

Hello everybody,

I am trying to digitize a bunch of sony video8 tapes. I thought of
converting them to dv format in order to edit them later with kino.
As far as I could see, kino itself does not provide import from
/dev/video device, so I tried mencoder:

mencoder -tv driver=v4l2:width=720:height=576 tv:// -o file.avi -ovc
libdv -of avi
and
mencoder -tv driver=v4l2 tv:// -vop scale=720:576 -o file.avi -ovc libdv -of avi

These settings work more or less: I do get a file, whch I can open
with kino, but it has wrong aspect ratio, and -- I guess -- is
oversampled.  However, whenever I tried to use different width and
height parameters I got error messages, which implied that I can only
use dv format with 720x576.

Please help me to figure out the right parameters for mencoder.

Regards,
     Victor
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