OK, I'm jumping into this conversation late, but here are my 2 cents.
1. I have a KWorld el-generico TV tuner that works just fine with bttv and xawtv. I believe it is the same chipset that comes in the Haupaggue (spelling?) cards. I love xawtv. It is one of the _killer apps_ for sure. I configured all the settings in .xawtv and got exactly the TV in a window while I'm reading my e-mail I was looking for. 2. I've tried serveral combinations of recording with xawtv and mencoder and ending up with nothing even remotely inspiring. I always hoped I could write scripts called by cron to do some serious command line PVRing, but haven't gotten close yet. It's got to be possible, right? That's what TIVO is all about: Linux with a TV Card, a nice case, some specialized software, and a remote control. 3. Here is the part I don't get! These cards are supposed to do HARDWARE MPEG 1 and 2 encoding. Savign to AVI and then re-encoding into some MPEG format seems like ripping MP3s into WAV and then back out to OGG. I admit I don't get how any of this works, but shouldn't it be more straigtforward to just _catch_ the already encoded MPEG data and put it somewhere??? Dave M. On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi all, > > ok, i ripped a southpark video with: > > System: AMD Athlon 1.3GHz > 2.4.22 w/ low latency > Radeon QD > very unloaded machine > > name: southpark1.avi > ripper: xawtv -noxv > audio format: 8bit mono > sample rate: 44100 > video format: 24bit TrueColor (LE: bgr) > fps: 30 > video size: 384x288 > > > the next step is to compress/encode it. > > however, i first tried to watch the avi with mplayer. the quality was > bad. whenever there was fast motion, it looked like the areas with fast > motion had white horizontal lines interleaved with the normal video. > > mplayer gave output which looks like it's related to this problem: > > badly interleaved AVI file. switching to -ni mode. > > i'm not sure what to do. i don't think it's a matter of my system not > being powerful enough. i did tests at low fps of a few seconds of > video, and got the same "interleaved" effect. it was actually worse at > lower fps. > > and there really aren't that many options with xawtv. i've played with > fps, sample rate, and video format. nothing seems to help. > > in xawtv, there are options to save as "single file raw video" and > "apple quicktime" format. i take it these are container formats that > sam was talking about. > > any suggestions? > > thanks! > pete > > -- > GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg > GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
