On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 01:40:47 -0800 (PST) Andrew Daviel <advax at triumf.ca> wrote: > I used > mencoder tv:// -tv input=1:norm=NTSC:driver=v4l2 -of mpeg \ > -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc -quiet -o foo.mpg > which seems to work - if I view the file in mplayer, it looks > OK. > But if I seek through the video with the cursor keys, I get repeated > warnings: first frame is no keyframe, and there are severe artefacts > in the display until things settle down. > A second tape is not so good - things never settle down entirely, and > the audio sounds distorted in places. I would highly discourage the use of --of mpeg in combination with either mpeg-4 video or mp3 audio. Remove it, and your problems will disappear. There are plenty of other quality issues with your minimal command-line you probably want to fix as well. -- Ha. I'm the idiot.