[wellylug] DSE & Linux

[Pizbit]

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I'm using this from David Antliff(See a post or two up) and I get very nice
quality. On my system of 1.5ghz amd xp 1800+ with 512MB ram it runs great with
cpu usage in the mid 60's.

mencoder -tv
channels=12:driver=v4l2:width=640:height=480:input=0:device=/dev/video0 tv://
- -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=1200:vhq:vqmin=2 -oac mp3lame
- -lameopts cbr:br=128 -vf pp=fd -endpos 00:60:00 -o tv3-news.avi

Vincent Cox wrote:
| Ewen McNeill wrote:
|
|> In message <4084D34E.5080707 at paradise.net.nz>, Vincent Cox writes:
|>
|>
|>> I agree, putting the penguin on the box can be a form of false
|>> advertising.  I bought a Flyvideo 3000 Video capture/tv card which had
|>> a penguin on the box, it came with a disc with some kernel modules on
|>> it.  No instructions on how to patch a kernel, and despite all my
|>> efforts I could not get it going under 2.4 series kernel.
|>
|>
|> I also have one of these cards from DSE, and it will work with a 2.4
|> kernel if you patch in v4l2 (which is built into Linux 2.6) and the
|> driver for the chipset (philips saa3174) -- both available from the
|> driver author's bytesex.org site.  It's working well for me on a patch
|> 2.4.25 kernel, give or take reception issues with just rabbit ears,
|> and encoding speed issues (a Duron 700 is fairly strained for real time
|> encoding -- I can do about 17 fps rather than 25 fps, and have to turn
|> off some useful mencoder options to be able to keep up).
|>
|>
|>
| Whats the quality of you recordings like ?
|
| I originally bought this card so I can plug my camcorder into to
| computer and make some home dvd's, but so far
| I find the recorded video quality to be poor.  I am using Xawtv to do
| the recordings.
|
| What mencoder options are you using ?
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