-----Forwarded Message----- From: Erik Slagter <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Recommended kernel patches for video capture Date: 02 Dec 2003 14:37:15 +0100 > > BTW you can never trust the synchronisation of TV cards. Therefore > > capturing programs should always explicitely keep/fix a/v > > synchronisation. Mencoder does something like that, transcode (cvs) v4l2 > > import module and nvrec do it too. The video capturing feature of other > > programs (like ffmpeg, transcode using v4l, mjpegtools) are actually not > > suitable for capturing video directly. > > How does mencoder do this? I have never captured properly synchronized video > with mencoder (in fact, that's why I switched to transcode :-) I used mencoder on my bt848 card and that worked fine. On the SAA7134 the sync compensation seems to be insufficient.
