[Mplayer-advusers] Simultaneous TV grabbing and watching

[Joey Parrish]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 06:19:16PM +0200, Hanusek Tomá? wrote:
> I wonder if this feature is supported some way or could be done through the system. xawdecode does it some way.
> Is it possible to catch and watch the TV video stream "somewhere in the system" while mencoder is recording to HDD? I don't thing about replaying  the freshly stored data from disk. Maybe some kind of two way bi-redirection - into the file and on the screen ?

I'd say just to run mencoder to grab and run mplayer to play the stream
as it's being grabbed.  Capture to AVI may have trouble with this (since
IIRC avi muxer goes back after the fact and redoes some header or other)
but there are other output formats supported by mencoder.

--Joey

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