On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Josef Wolf <jw at raven.inka.de> wrote: > Hello, > > 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, I am doing the same task here as well. However my capture card is playing up and won't let me record both sound and video. Can I ask which capture hardware you are using? > > I thought I'd do that in two passes. First, grab the recording with "copy" > encoder. In the second pass I'd do the deinterlace/encoding/etc to shrink > the recordings to acceptable size. > > So for the grab, I tried this command line: > > ?mencoder tv:// -tv > ?driver=v4l2:input=1:width=768:height=576:outfmt=yuy2:norm=pal:buffersize=100:forceaudio:alsa:adevice=hw.0,0,0:amode=1:immediatemode=0 \ > ?-oac copy -ovc copy -of avi -ofps 25 -o video.avi > > But this complains really often about duplicated frames and dropped frames. > I am somewhat concerned about those error messages. Will this have a big > impact on recording quality? > > BTW: I've seen various resolution recommendations for PAL varying from > ? ? 384x288 to 768x576. What is the correct setting? > _______________________________________________ > MPlayer-users mailing list > MPlayer-users at mplayerhq.hu > https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users > -- Sam Spilsbury
