[Openchrome-users] mencoder

[TheHog]

> On Sunday 26 February 2006 16:12, TheHog wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > When I apply the latest mplayer patch to mplayer, will I be able to use
h/w
> > MPEG2 decoding on a cle266 with *mencoder* ? This would be very usefull
> > since recoding a recorded video (using PVR-250 / ivtv) to divx now goes
> > with only 7 frames per second.
> >
> whilst tecnically possible to access the decoded image accessing it will be

> slow... on top of which your mpeg4 encoding is going to be taking up most
of 
> your cpu.
> Keep the pvr250 output as mpeg2 and get a bigger hard disk.

Not exactly the answer that I was hoping for, but I suppose you're right
about divx encoding taking the most processing time. The cpu % I gain using
xine with h/w encoding vs. xine w/o h/w encoding is 20%. So using h/w mpeg2
decoding with mencoder would only speed it up by 20%. Thus... from 7 fps to
say 8.5 fps.

theHog