[MPlayer-users] bt878-v4l-configure-problem and "mencoder encoding too fast"-problem

[rcooley]

On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 10:19:55 -0500
strothkoetter at netscape.net wrote:

> When I change the config.h file to force compilation of v4l-support
> instead of v4l2-suport, compilation finishes successfull and watching
> tv with mplayer works fine. 
> 
> When I try to record from the tv-card using mencoder, the encoding
> works much too fast:
> 
> "Pos:  10,0s    153f ( 0%)  24fps Trem:   0min   0mb  A-V:0,000
> [683:63]]"
> 
>        ^^^^^
> The seconds behind "Pos:" increase about 30% faster than realtime.
> When I play the recored Movies with mlayer, they run much too slow.
> 
> Any Ideas how to fix the problems?

Hmm.  You haven't said what command-line you use.  You haven't given the
full output of mplayer.  

Have you exclicitly told mplayer the FPS? eg."-tv fps=29.97" for NTSC
or"-tv fps=25" ?