Simon Baxter wrote: > 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. why don't you use directly $ mencoder dvb:// ... instead? > > > ...and nothing further. No "TS file format detected", no avi created, > no nothing!! > > How come? nothing is coming out of the card. Maybe the card isn't locking the frequency > > > 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 what does mplayer say when you play it? 3.0 is allowed but a bit strange, though
