[MPlayer-users] Recording Problem

[AthlonRob]

Hello-

I have a setup right now that allows me to record TV shows on to my
system when I want.

As hard drive space and CPU power are both in short supply on this
setup, I encode with MJPEG as I record, then I later encode it to divx
using a two-pass setup.

Now... I've run in to a bit of a problem.  TV recording works great.  I
want to record from a video camera, however, playing back some
home-movie quality tapes (of track meets, actually).  I figured it
should work, no problem.

I was wrong.  My CPU utilization jumped from where it normally sits at
80-85% up to 99% and I started getting one in every five frames
dropped.  The bitrate jumped from ~8000kbps to over 15,000kbps.  

The only thing I can think of is either the video camera is just funky
(we're using composite connections) or perhaps the shakyness of the
video is making it near impossible for the encoder to keep up on this
slow (650MHz Duron) processor.

What are your thoughts?

I can provide the commandline and output for the recordings if you wish.

I'd appreciate some input, and maybe a possible solution.  :-)

Rob