[MEncoder-users] vhs (pal or secam) encoding

[Phil Ehrens]

moebius wrote:
> Hummm it seems hard to solve :)
> 
> I try it again, niil desesperandum....
> 
> cordialement,
> 
> 
> moebius a écrit :
> > Bonjour,
> > 
> > I've found no solution for my problem ;
> > 
> > I've got a dazzle dvc100 device in order to transfer some vhs (a lot in 
> > fact) to avi files, but it's not so simple...
> > It's not too difficult to get the dazzle device working (em28xx module) 
> > neither to see the vhs on my computer screen with mplayer, BUT
> > when there's an horizontal scroll, the result (both with mplayer and 
> > mencoder) become jerky, not a lot but the image seems to freeze during a 
> > very short time then scroll again during a  short time (less than one 
> > second) ;

I'm only guessing, but if by horizontal scroll you mean the
image is panning, the bitrate is probably going very high and
something is not keeping up. A few years ago I recall people
were generally unhappy with USB devices like the dvc100.