On 4/6/2010 12:11 PM, S Andreason wrote: > Josef Wolf wrote: >> I am about to digitize my VHS tapes. Since this are old family >> recordings, I'd >> like to have the best quality I can get. >> > > Hi Josef, > I don't see what video codec it should digitize to. Perhaps it can't > handle the raw stream? > > Here are two commands I use to digitize from my AVI capture card. > > mencoder -tv > driver=v4l:norm=ntsc:width=640:height=480:input=1:adevice=/dev/dsp1:immediatemode=0:audiorate=32000:forceaudio > \ > -rawaudio rate=32000 -ovc lavc -lavcopts > vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=2500 -oac lavc \ > tv:// -o out.avi > > ffmpegrec -d /dev/dsp1 -r 32000 -N 64 -s -v /dev/video0 \ > -norm NTSC -input Composite1 -ff mpeg \ > -vc mpeg4 -w 640 -h 480 -H 75 -M 40 -deint bilin -vb 6000 \ > -o out.mpg > > I don't get any dropped frames. > Stewart > I think you already have captured it to an AVI file? If so, why not encode it at h.264 (-ovc x264) with a high quality (-crf 20 - 23)? /re
