On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:48:49 +0200 Josef Wolf <jw at raven.inka.de> wrote: > So now I capture with > > sudo ionice -c 1 nice -n -20 mencoder tv:// -tv > driver=v4l2:mjpeg:width=768:height=576:input=1:fps=50:quality=100:n > orm=pal:buffersize=100:forceaudio:alsa:adevice=hw.0,0,0:amode=1:imm > ediatemode=0:outfmt=yuy2 -forceidx -oac copy -ovc copy -of avi > -endpos 4:10:00 -o outfile.avi Does yv12 work in place of yuy2? It should save you some space. Other than that, you can reduce quality if necessary, but you're pretty well at the mercy of the hardware... -- Ha. I'm the idiot.