Jose Romildo Malaquias wrote:
Yes, I have tried
mencoder \ -tv on:driver=v4l:device=/dev/video0:norm=palm:width=768:height=576 \ -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=900 \ -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=64 \ -vop pp=lb,crop=720:540:24:18 \ -o output.avi
which gives some error messsages. After removing the -vop option from the command above, it works.
The above is suited for capturing PAL, not NTSC. 720x540 exceeds the maximum dimensions for PAL-M which has the NTSC image format (640x480). You should replace width=768:height=576 with width=640:height=480 and crop= with something smaller to get rid of the crap at the margins.
As I am new to mplayer, I do not know how to use it well yet. The above command was based on an example from the manual.
Another question: is it possible to watch TV while recording? How?
currently not.
Thanks for the help.
Romildo
Regards, -- Jindrich Makovicka