Greets! first off, to be quite honest, i'm not real sure what i'm doing at this point, so apologies in advance if this question is lame and/or should be directed somewhere else. hopefully, if any of the above is true, someone will be kind enough to point me in the right direction. :) oh yeah, ivtv rocks and has made me very happy to date (an entire week)!!
i recently purchased a WinTV-PVR-150 because: 1)Linux/ivtv will happily use it 2)built-in hardware MPEG-2 encoder 3)priced right ($100/US) i've been looking around here and there trying to find the best way to get the video from some DV's i recorded last year to my linux box for converting to DVDs via Composite 1 (i have yet to use S-Vid), and the best that i've come up with so far is something like the following in a script: mencoder -vf scale=720:480 -vfm ffmpeg -oac mp3lame -of avi \ -ovc copy /dev/video0 -endpos $2 -o avi/"$1".avi (i don't know if i should use -oac copy instead, or if it even matters?) this seems to work well, but then i have to turn around and issue this: mencoder -ovc copy "$1".avi -forceidx -oac copy \ -o "$1"copy.avi then i do any cutting that's necessary in case i've recorded too much "blue screen" at the end of the tape. for an hour's worth of video, this results in a file 3GB+ i'm guessing i'd get the same results if i just issued a: cat /dev/video0 >output.mpg ??? i successfully have Myth set up and actually recorded one of my DV's and it was a bit smaller, i think about 2.3G and i'm pretty sure it was at least an hour. the problem i see with using Myth to do this, is that i'd rather not sit there and wait to cue up the DV when Myth starts recording. :) unfortunately, i don't have any idea what Myth is doing to the file to make it smaller in size than what i'm doing in my script. are the file size(s) i'm seeing normal? is there something i should be setting via ivtvctl? i have a feeling that i'm off topic here which is not my intent, but i'm just not sure where else to go for PVR-150 issues/questions which in the end quite possibly is *not* my question, but in fact is an encoder question?? Best Regards, -=tim _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
