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

Mark James wrote:
> Nico Sabbi wrote:
> 
>> 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)
> 
> 
> I'll give that a try because I'm finding dvd:tsaf is not usable for
> recording HD streams: Mencoder increases its MUX rate several times,
> and its memory usage continually rises until it consumes all VM
> (16GB in my case).  The recording will not play back past about 30s
> -- the time at which the mux rate was last increased.

add :muxrate=18000 or the highest muxrate value reported by 
mencoder