[MEncoder-users] No idea what I am doing...

[James Hastings-Trew]

Greg Heywood wrote:
> [ivtv]
> tv=normid=10:norm=pal:device=/dev/video0:width=720:height=480
> pvr=abitrate=192:vbitrate=2200000:vpeak=2600000:fmt=dvd:aspect=2:arate=32000
> of=mpeg=1
> mpegopts=format=dvd
> ofps=30000/1001
> ovc=copy=1
> oac=copy=1
> vf=harddup=1
>
>
> The command line I used was:
> mencoder pvr:// -profile ivtv -o encode.mpg -endpos 20
>
> This seems to work OK, although the video that is captured is very grainy,
> and mostly black and white static.
>
> I guess the first method is closest to working, but it seems to be using
> NTSC still, not PAL. I also used "v4l2-ctl -s pal" to set it to PAL (I
> think), but mencoder still reports NTSC-M.
>
> Any more tips on how to ensure that it records in PAL (if indeed that is the
> problem)?
>
> Thanks
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>   
If you want PAL, why do you have -ofps 30000/1001 in the profile? -ofps 
25 is what you want. And you need to specify a container format, that's 
why you are getting all the errors about AVI format.