Hi group I've been using mplayer's Mencoder to encode streams from my WinTV NovaT card on the fly, with varied results. I start a tzap to tune the card, then mencode it. 1) Some muxes don't seem to lock. With Mux 1 off UK-Crystal Palace (which works fine) I get : MEncoder 1.0pre6-3.4.2 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon MP/XP/XP-M Barton (Family: 6, Stepping: 0) Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal! To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection. #I'll get around to fixing this :) File not found: 'frameno.avi' Failed to open frameno.avi success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x0 TS file format detected. DEMUX OPEN, AUDIO_ID: -1, VIDEO_ID: -1, SUBTITLE_ID: -1, PROBING UP TO 2000000, PROG: 0 etc etc But mux 3 (channel five etc) I get : MEncoder 1.0pre6-3.4.2 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon MP/XP/XP-M Barton (Family: 6, Stepping: 0) Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal! To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection. File not found: 'frameno.avi' Failed to open frameno.avi success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x0 ...and nothing further. No "TS file format detected", no avi created, no nothing!! How come? 2) Has anyone had any luck changing the aspect with Mencoder? The avi is too vertically stretched. I had tried the following mencoder /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 -force-avi-aspect 3.0 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vpass=1 -oac copy -o /usr/video/Test25-9_2_280405.avi ...with many different aspect values - but it doesn't seem to have any effect any ideas? Cheers Simon
