[MPlayer-users] Encoding optimisation that uses the least processing power

[Mustafa Abbasi]

i am trying to record tv using mencoder and v4l2. i can happily get
both sound and video now but i am having real problems with the amount
of processing power that mencoder uses this is the command i use

nice -n19 /home/mustafa/source_compile/mplayer_1.0/bin/mencoder tv://
-tv device=/dev/video0:driver=v4l2:freq=312.25:saturation=100:volume=100
-oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=64  -ofps 23 -ovc lavc -lavcopts 
vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=600 -o /store/match3.avi


i am using a
amd sempron 2400+
MSI KM3M-V mainboard
256 mb ram

could somebody please tell me how i reduce proccesor usage while
keeping compression to mpeg4 level.