[MEncoder-users] Recording a video from a ivtv tv-card (Hauppauge PVR 150)

[Saedelaere]

Thanks for your help.

I switched back to a standard cat command. Perhaps later my users will
be able to use mencoder to confert already recorded files to different
formats.

Best regards

RC schrieb:
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:35:48 +0200 (CEST)
> saedelaere at arcor.de wrote:
> 
>> I think mencoder has got two big advantages. 
>> First it provides the endpos option. Which is very usefull. 
> 
> MEncoder's -endpos option is reasonably useful with files, as it is
> necessary to demux the video to determine times.  With realtime capture,
> however, the system clock is just as accurate as MEncoder.
> 
>> Second later the user should be able to recode the video while
>> recording. Ok this could be done in a second step. Hmm
> 
> That would:
>   defeat the purpose, and added expense, of an MPEG capture card.    
>   add more processing (decoding) time than a raw YUV card.   
>   mean substantially decreased quality vs, a raw YUV card. 
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