Victor B. Putz wrote:
> I'm using mencoder with a Hauppage WinTV board on an Athlon 1400 (or so)
> with 768MB ram.
I see you're encoding to MPEG-4. Have you considered using a faster
codec, like MPEG-1 or even MJPEG? These will require rather more disk
to store the programme, but your system will have an easier time
keeping up.
My Freevo box is also a 1.4GHz Athlon. It does transcodes from
MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 at about 35fps, typically, though that does also
involve a scale filter. What I'm getting at here is that it's
possible that your system simply isn't keeping up -- the live TV
problem you note certainly suggests this -- and at that point it's
going to start dropping frames and otherwise buggering things up.
I use a DVB-T card for captures, dumping the MPEG-2 streams straight
to disk and then transcoding to MPEG-4 as appropriate as a background
job. I'm not sure what state digital TV is in in the US, but you
should be able to get similar results with one of the Hauppage
PVR350 cards.
Matt
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