On 10/9/06, Marc Kalberer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> Is it possible to record directly in an other format - xvid would be great.
> cat /dev/video1 > rec.mpg give a huge file ,

Not without ffmpeg, trancode or another encoder. I am not sure but you
should be able to play with the bitrates in ivtv.

> wouldn't it be possible to use transcode or ffmpeg to directly reencode
> the stream.

Sure, you can open the device directly with mencoder (mplayer) for
example and make it encode into divx4 + mp3 [1]. Check the online docs
for mplayer at [2]

Greets,
Sander

[1] mencoder -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -o test.avi /dev/video0
[2] http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/index.html

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