[MEncoder-users] tv recording

[Stefan Sassenberg]

Hello Greg,

Grzesiek Sójka schrieb:
> Hi there,
> 
> I plan to use mencoder to record tv programs. Since I'm not very
> experienced with multimedia I was wondering if you could give me some
> suggestions. I did some googling about -tv options and I'm able to watch
> tv using mplayer. My problem is the proper setting of the video encoding
> parameters to get a reasonable quality.
> 
the command lines I use with my personal/location dependent settings is:

VBITRATE=3000
TVOPTS="-tv 
device=/dev/v4l/video1:driver=v4l2:width=720:height=576:fps=25:norm=PAL:chanlist=europe-west:saturation=-40:channels="\
TVOPTS="${TVOPTS}E10-ARD,E8-ZDF,E6-RBB,SE18-mdr,S24-BR"\
TVOPTS="${TVOPTS},S22-WDR,E9-SAT.1,E11-RTL,SE13-RTL_II,S21-Super_RTL"\
TVOPTS="${TVOPTS},SE20-PRO7,SE6-KABEL1,SE11-VOX,SE17-NDR,22-Eurosport"\
TVOPTS="${TVOPTS},S23-DSF,21-MTV,29-MTV_II/9Live,26-VIVA,24-VIVA_Plus"\
TVOPTS="${TVOPTS},25-onyx,SE9-3sat,SE15-Kinderkanal,SE4-arte,E7-RBB_Brandenburg"\
TVOPTS="${TVOPTS},SE7-tvBerlin,SE16-FAB,33-EuroNews,S25-N24,SE19-Phoenix"\
TVOPTS="${TVOPTS},SE5-n-tv,S35-XXP,SE14-BBC_World,SE12-CNN,SE8-OKB"\
TVOPTS="${TVOPTS},SE10-Mischkanal,E5-HSE,E12-QVC,23-TD1,28-NBC"\
TVOPTS="${TVOPTS},30-TRTint,31-TV_Polonia,32-TV5,33-Tele5"

mencoder tv://$channel_number $TVOPTS -ovc lavc -lavcopts 
vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=$VBITRATE:vhq:keyint=100 -oac mp3lame -lameopts 
vbr=0 -o file.avi

Stefan