[Ffmpeg-devel] Re: [Ffmpeg-user] ffmpeg encoding, really slow video when recording with audio (original) (raw)

Erik Slagter erik
Fri Feb 3 12:10:37 CET 2006

On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 20:54 +0000, Karl Lattimer wrote:

I'm playing around with ffmpeg as it seems to be the only thing around that can record from line input and a composite video feed from a bt878 card. When I record video only I have no problem, the video plays back with exceptional quality and is absolutely perfect. However when I try and record audio from line-in also there seems to be a problem.

I am using the following command line to record with audio ffmpeg -vd /dev/video0 -r 25 -b 2048 -ad /dev/dsp -s cif video.mpg

It's probably reading from /dev/dsp in blocking mode. That will guarantee a/v unsync, ffmpeg does not have special provisions for recording from separate audio and video devices at the same time. Several other tools do indeed.

Maybe this could be solved by making the audio reads non-blocking and adding a timestamp, but reading non-blocking from a file or audio-only recording is silly. Also the time at which an audio frame is read from the device is not necessarily anywhere near the time the frame was recorded :-( -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 2771 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/attachments/20060203/a590260e/attachment.bin>

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