hi, i've a problem recording tv with the mencoder. the v4l2 works correct with the wintv card and i can wath tv but i dont get the recording to work. i tried some opts (from the man and doc and different other sites) .... i dont have a soundcard in the pc but it shoudn't be the problem ?! here ist what i tested an the response: MPlayer-1.0pre6a # mencoder -tv driver=v4l2:width=768:height=576 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=900 -vf crop=720:544:24:16,pp=lb -o output.avi tv:// MEncoder 1.0pre6-3.3.1 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Duron MG Morgan (Family: 6, Stepping: 1) Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE File not found: 'frameno.avi' Failed to open frameno.avi success: format: 9 data: 0x0 - 0x0 TV detected! ;-) Selected driver: v4l2 name: Video 4 Linux 2 input author: Martin Olschewski <olschewski@zpr.uni-koeln.de> comment: first try, more to come ;-) v4l2: ioctl query capabilities failed: Invalid argument v4l2: 0 frames successfully processed, 0 frames dropped. ============ Sorry, this file format is not recognized/supported ============= === If this file is an AVI, ASF or MPEG stream, please contact the author! === Cannot open demuxer. Exiting... if anyone has ideas or solutions i'll be really pleased best regards freaket