Re: mencoder video trouble

[Michel Bardiaux <mbardiaux@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quynh Pham wrote:
> I'm trying to record tv using mencoder (i've tried mythtv and freevo,
> but couldn't get them to work) and so far, i've made the most progress
> from it...to the point where i get video and audio, but the video is
> really crappy...it's all wrong (i've attached the file called tv.avi,
> if you wanted to see what it looked like)

Well, the attachment isnt there, probably removed by the mailing list 
software. Can you describe the problem?

> anyways, this is what my command line looks like
>
> i'm not sure what this means:
> v4l2: ioctl set format failed: Invalid argument

It means mencoder asked v4l2 for a format that is not supported by the 
driver. IIRC the format to use is YUV420P which would be i420 in the 
list below.

> everything seems to be fine (minus some things i'm not sure about)
>
> Can anyone possibly help me out on this? suggestions?
> Also, the available outfmt= are 444p 422p 411p yuy2 uyvy yvu9 if09
> yv12 i420 iyuv clpl hm12 y800 y8 nv12 nv21 bgr24 bgr32 bgr16 bgr15
> bgr8 bgr4 bg4b bgr1 rgb24 rgb32 rgb16 rgb15 rgb8 rgb4 rg4b rgb1
>
> yv12 is what was said was recommended when i tried some of the others


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