[MPlayer-users] Digitizing VHS tapes with mencoder

[RC]

On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:48:49 +0200
Josef Wolf <jw at raven.inka.de> wrote:

> So now I capture with
> 
>   sudo ionice -c 1 nice -n -20 mencoder tv:// -tv
>   driver=v4l2:mjpeg:width=768:height=576:input=1:fps=50:quality=100:n
>   orm=pal:buffersize=100:forceaudio:alsa:adevice=hw.0,0,0:amode=1:imm
>   ediatemode=0:outfmt=yuy2 -forceidx -oac copy -ovc copy -of avi
>   -endpos 4:10:00 -o outfile.avi

Does yv12 work in place of yuy2?  It should save you some space.  Other
than that, you can reduce quality if necessary, but you're pretty well
at the mercy of the hardware...


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