[Mplayer-advusers] Simultaneous TV grabbing and watching

[Alexander Strasser]

Joey Parrish wrote ( On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 01:37:03PM -0500 ):
> 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.

If i understand you right Joey, this is the exact thing he doesn't want
to do ( see the text you quoted ). But the other thing is not supported
with MPlayer/MEncoder AFAIK.

  Alex (beastd)