[MPlayer-users] Audio recording problem from VCR

[John Brown]

Martin Emrich wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I try to record video (and audio) from some old VHS tapes using the
> following hardware:
>
> - Old VCR, connected via Composite and stereo RCA
> - Elsa Erazor III ViVo card with rivatv (dma=1)
> - Onboard AC97 sound card (ALi, with snd_intel8x0)
> - Athlon 64 3700+, 2GB RAM, 80GB HDD (dma enabled)
>
> But mencoder ignores the audio track (the resulting file does not
> contain an audio track, and the audio bitrate indicator stays on 0 all
> the time).
>
> This is my commandline:
>
> mencoder -tv
> driver=v4l:norm=PAL:input=0:outfmt=UYVY:width=704:height=576:audiorate=32000:amode=1:adevice=/dev/dsp0
> tv:///0 -o test.avi -oac pcm -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=ffvhuff
>

Try adding immediatemode=0. The manual says that this is default for mencoder, but...
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