[MPlayer-users] Digitizing VHS tapes with mencoder

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Josef Wolf wrote:
> I am about to digitize my VHS tapes. Since this are old family recordings, I'd
> like to have the best quality I can get.
>
>   

Hi Josef,
I don't see what video codec it should digitize to. Perhaps it can't 
handle the raw stream?

Here are two commands I use to digitize from my AVI capture card.

mencoder -tv 
driver=v4l:norm=ntsc:width=640:height=480:input=1:adevice=/dev/dsp1:immediatemode=0:audiorate=32000:forceaudio 
\
        -rawaudio rate=32000 -ovc lavc -lavcopts 
vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=2500 -oac lavc \
        tv:// -o out.avi

 ffmpegrec -d /dev/dsp1 -r 32000 -N 64 -s -v /dev/video0 \
         -norm NTSC -input Composite1 -ff mpeg \
         -vc mpeg4 -w 640 -h 480 -H 75 -M 40 -deint bilin -vb 6000 \
         -o out.mpg

I don't get any dropped frames.
Stewart