On 2003-01-14 at 22:14:59 -0600, Carl Swanson <cswanson2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm looking for Linux TV card capture software that captures > video in the mpeg 4 compression standard. Any software out there > us this new compression format? You could take a look at MPlayer, The mencoder program from that package can use codecs from ffmeg, libavifile and win32. With my setup, I can use msmpeg4, divx4/5 and mpeg4 (from libavifile; it seems to be the best quality as well as the fastest). I upgraded my kernel and bttv and have some severe problems with duplicate frames now, but before that, I could capture and encode in real-time MPEG4 from my Pinnacle PCTV Rave with no loss of frames, in up to 768x576 (I did have to choose only a few encoding options then, but since I always encode the files at least twice anyway, it didn't matter much). (this is with an Athlon XP 1800+). Just make sure you get either MPlayer-0.90rc2 or the CVS version; audio capture only started to work recently. http://mplayerhq.hu/ -R.
