[MPlayer-users] How to use mencoder as a "tivo"

[napo978]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 12:38:37PM +0200, Manolis Tzanidakis wrote:
> Hello,
> I really enjoyed the thread "tv card basics" and I'm (almost)
> successfully using mencoder to record tv programs to divx with the
> following command :
> 
> # mencoder -tv on:driver=v4l:width=640:height=480:channel=$1 -ovc lavc
> -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=650:vme=5 -vop pp=lb -oac mp3lame
> -lameopts vbr=0:br=64:aq=9:mode=3 -ofps 25 
> 
> However this doesn't record any sound. I have connected tv card's audio
> out to my sblive's input (mixer tab: line) & I can hear audio with
> xawtv & mplayer -tv. Anyone knows how to also record audio ?
> Last but not least how can I tell mencoder to rec for a specified time,
> i.e. 40 mins ? I wanna run it w/ crontab to rec my favorite shows
> automatically...
-endpos 40:00
B-
> P.S. : I searched the ml-archives but couldn't find anything.
> 
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