Hello, I installed last month (or last year) VCR, a text-console video-recorder in divX format. It works quite well and I have already captured a few video concerts. I would like to improve the quality It wors in console-mode thus and you just have to type:
: vcr --codec "divx ;-) low-motion" -a 'Bitrate=1500' --quality 100 audiobitrate 128 --rectime 90m -p RTL --audiomode stereo test.avi
I am a little baffled because I wonder how VCR managed to find the codec during installation. I suppose it found the codecs installed with avifile. Problem is I can't record in fast-motion mode (don't find codec!!). 2d problem: a 90 minutes recording takes about 300 Mb. I downloaded .avi file of about 650 Mb that lasted about 90-120 minutes with a better image quality of course. My records are not too bad but I have a lot of "squares" that appear. Thus, questions, I am still a newbie in video divx/capture and I don't use a "click-click" windows program: Does anyone knows VCR? 1) what parameter must I change to reduce the presence of "squares"? 2) what is precisely "Bitrate" , its influence on the quality of the capture. 3) --keyframes, -k <keyframes> Number of frames between keyframes (default=15): I suppose that if I decrease "keyframe", I decrease the number of intermediate and partiel frames between full-sized frames. What is the ideal number for a correct capture? 4) I can't thus encode in fast-motion: how can I solve the problem: which codec to use, where to install it and how to configure VCR to use it? That's all folks Happy New Year -- Alain Barthélemy bartydeux@gminformatique.com http://bartydeux.gminformatique.com