Re: Recording TV: broken indexes, the endpos flag, and the recording status line

Mark James wrote:
> Nico Sabbi wrote:
> 
>> mencoder saving as avi doesn't do all that it should do
>> ...
>>
>>> or is it different, requiring some extra
>>> procesing load relative to a dumpstream?
>>
>>
>> yes
> 
> 
> OK, I think I understand now.  It's unfortunate that mencoder
> can't do a raw dump, but the overhead of the mpg/DVD timestamping
> is sufficiently small that I can live with it.
> 
> I'll release and announce here the D+A version of my script
> once it's been further tested.
> 
> Thank you again Nico.
> 

if you want to reduce it even more you can use :format=pes1 
(.vdr), that typically lowers the overhead to < 0.5%.
I highly recommend against it, though, because the format is 
extremely broken (no pack header => no scr)