UPDATE: The previous title for this question was "How To Specify Bitrate, Codec and Demultiplexing for VLC Video Capture or Recording."
I capture video from old TV tuner card – Pinnacle PCTV – using VLC. The video is from the Composite input and audio is from I guess the mixer or Line in. The command I use is:
vlc v4l2:///dev/video0:normal=pal:width=720:height=576:input=1 :input-slave="alsa://hw:0,0"
In VLC, I have enabled the Advanced Controls toolbar, which allows me to record videos when I want to. However, these videos are uncompressed – very big and play only with VLC. Totem throws the "Could not demultiplex stream" error. I need to convert them using WinFF to reduce their size and make them playable with Totem and other software.
My question is whether I can configure the recording settings – the codecs and the bitrate, and also get the stream demultiplexed. If I pass any -sout parameter with command I get a "Segmentation fault". I use 64-bit Ubuntu 10.10.
Best Answer
In the past I've had the following work for me:
Of course both the -target and frame rate -r 3000/101 would have to be changed for PAL.