On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 12:17, Kevin Atkinson wrote: > > Yes, but mjpeg does not compress that well although it may be the only > choice if I want to remain patent safe. Please don't tell me that mjpeg > encoding violates some patent. > > I thing mjpeg should defiantly be an option but I think using mpeg-1 should > also be OK. Especially since hardly anyone knows even what patents are > used. ffmpeg is a very good real time mpeg encoding which only used > about 50% of my cpu on a PIII 500. > i usually record to an .avi (mpeg -A format with lavrec), i then can compress that with the divx compression format which does a superb job of compression. i think one can do a one linux of lavrec -A filename.avi | divx or something. (going from memory here so i'm just jotting thoughts here). this way, one could compress at the same time of recording. i think this worked fine for my 2x750P3 setup and used ~70% of each cpu. to get divx compression, you'll need to get the libs, etc and read the docs. i forget how, ..maybe i have it on my website. *me forgets* -- ----- Verify my pgp/gnupg signature on my HomePage: http://www.alltel.net/~rogerx/about/index.html
