Reccoding video for security application

[Olivier Nicole]

> > I have a bktr848 video capture card in the machine and I would like to
> > reccord video and save it in a decent format (something that could
> > easily be played on most movie player on Windows and X, xvid, mpeg,
> > etc.) in the full 640x480 resolution.
> > 
> > I have been playing around with fxtv and dtv and transcode and...
> 
> 	Try ffmpeg - I used it as a VCR for a long time, mencoder should
> also work well and provides the very low CPU option of using nuv
> (Nuppelvideo) format recording.

I tries ffmpeg, but it core dumps both on /dev/bktr and on the file
reccorded with dtv.

Mencode has so many options, I don't know how to run it.