[MEncoder-users] With time honoured always working alsa settings no more audio with mencoder...

Sat Nov 10 23:38:12 CET 2012

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The issue has been solved:

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/2012-November/015243.html

Thanks for patience everybody!

Miroslav Rovis

> Since the good MPLAYERHQ.HU Mplayer Headquarters, where Mplayer 
> started by Árpád Gereöffy, my Hungarian neighbour ( 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mplayer ) is already showing my
> post:
> 
> 
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mencoder-users/2012-November/013228.html
> 
> but the secret services haven't yet sifted my mail to decide what
> of my mail to let me have and what not to (it's a regular treatment
> that the killer's children who they are give to even tolerant
> rightwingers like me),
> 
> ((( Actually I wasn't right this time around, because I'm on
> digest with mencoder at this time. But I like what I wrote, because
> it is true, in many other similar occasions. )))
> 
> I can not reply in good order to my own post.
> 
> I know it'll be posted in the right thread because I'll give it
> the right Subject line, which is good enough for good mailing
> lists...
> 
> ### Now the tech content.
> 
> If we look into mplayer (should have been in mencoder) archives:
> 
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2009-December/subject.html
> there we find the thread by the subject: [MPlayer-users] A-V sync
> with mencoder/mplayer
> 
> Starting from, say:
> 
> 
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2009-December/078442.html
> 
> Somewhere there, or later, or even earlier, and thanks to help
> from Reimar Döffinger and others, I was able to, after days of
> testing, get mencoder to fabulously :-) capture on Composite (be it
> S-video or to Composite through adapters, or plain Composite, from,
> usually either from S-video, Composite, or Scart inputs, so we're
> talking old equipment, still just good for old footage of any
> kind)...
> 
> But I was saying, thanks to help from Mencoder crew, I was able to 
> capture with mencoder on Composite input of my now old Hauppauge 
> HVR-3000 PCI card, both video and audio, and it was the sync that
> was the hurdle par excellance, like no other, bothered people later
> on as well...
> 
> The code that I still use, and is based on those findings, or
> maybe later improvements, who can tell, and I'm not rummiging into
> all the archives now, has stopped capturing from line-in, for
> short.
> 
> These are the relevant profiles in ~miro/.mplayer/mencoder.conf
> 
> 
> [mpeg4_capt] profile-desc="mpeg4 capture"
> 
tv=input=1:driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0:normid=3:input=1:alsa=1:adevice=hw.0,2:audiorate=48000:amode=1:width=768:height=576
> ovc=lavc=1 #nosound=1
> 
lavcopts=vcodec=mpeg4:autoaspect=1:vqscale=4:vb_strategy=1:vmax_b_frames=2:mbd=0:turbo=1
> vf=softskip,harddup mc=0
> 
> [mpeg4_capt_MP3] profile=mpeg4_capt_MP3 oac=mp3lame=1 
> lameopts=cbr=1:preset=standard
> 
> I don't remember now why I needed to make two profiles, I remember 
> that just worked for all this time... with the commend (or a
> previous variant of the following command):
> 
> mencoder tv:// -profile mpeg4_capt_noAu  -o Compo_`date
> +C%m%d_%H%M`.avi
> 
> I use C insted of 12 for year 2012 (because I'll be using one
> digit instead of one in  tens of thousands of instances, this way),
> so the
part:
> 
> `date +C%m%d_%H%M` (those are the socalled backticks at beginning
> and end; I always like providing extra explanations for possible
> newbies to understand)
> 
> get substituted with the current month day _ hour minute (without
> blanks. two digits each), so I can make those numerous tries if I
> need without having to delete/overwrite files.
> 
> I'm not explaining all now, but the relevant for the problem that
> I
have.
> 
> The line that does the audio capture setting is:
> 
> 
tv=input=1:driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0:normid=3:input=1:alsa=1:adevice=hw.0,2:audiorate=48000:amode=1:width=768:height=576
> ovc=lavc=1
> 
> It actually does the video and audio setting, but the audio setting
> is determined with:
> 
> input=1:alsa=1:adevice=hw.0,2:audiorate=48000:amode=1 ovc=lavc=1
> 
> which is in that line.
> 
> That is the bit that doesn't work anymore.
> 
> Now comes the pictures, moving, to the aid of the needy...
> 
> But they are so clumsily made.... I'm sorry!
> 
> On the other hand, I am really grasping for time like the drowning
> for air... Sorry!
> 
> This is the video:
> 
> "Screen 2012-11-08, 19h, Alsa problem 2" No! Not anymore! Now it
> reads:
> 
> "Screen 2012-11-08, 19h, Alsa problem 2, pls see text below"
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7AZ6el8AK4
> 
> Note exclusively ;-) for mencoder users. Don't bother listening
> after the real mess starts, which is after about 9:00, because I
> forgot to switch back to microphone from line-in, and only thought
> that I was taping own talk...
> 
> Sure, there is also
> 
> "Screen 2012-1x-xx, xxh, Alsa problem" (or part 1, Youtube should
> give you that)
> 
> The line that OTOH captures the audio fine, is:
> 
> ffmpeg -f pulse -i default Ffm_`date +C%m%d_%H%M`.wav
> 
> and it captures what I set ti to capture, either Line-in or Mic or 
> probably something else (haven't tried yet).
> 
> My question is:
> 
> how do I either:
> 
> 1) configure mencoder to capture pulseaudio just like ffmpeg does
> 
> or
> 
> 2) get mencoder to capture audio from my Line-in in come other way
> 
> I hope I made a much clearer now.
> 
> Thanks people. Let's solve this issue, so mencoder can still be
> used on precious VHS tapes, and other stuff. which is not going
> away anytime soon, just yet, and for years to come!
> 
> Miroslav Rovis m.rovis at inet.hr miro.rovis at gmail.com 01 660 2633 091
> 266 0202 #===      osuđen:     ===# 
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> http://groups.google.com/group/croatian-news/ 
> http://www.youtube.com/user/miroR2 nije moj profil, ali do siečnja
> 2012., a i kasnije, tamo postavljah: 
> http://www.youtube.com/user/prosvjednikkrcmarek Ima nešto i ovdje: 
> http://vimeo.com/user9621785 
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
> 

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