[MPlayer-users] Re: mplayer audio from TV line???

[Jonathan Rogers]

Bill Eldridge wrote:
> I guess I didn't add that I basically want to be able to watch TV 
> real-time and save the programs.
> Yes, I already can grab stuff with ffmpeg and vlc, no one seems to have 
> the dual dsp issue thought out.

As long as you there are enough CPU cycles, you can record an AVI using 
mencoder and play it back simultaneously with mplayer. The down side is 
that you're both encoding and decoding simultaneously, which is 
inefficient. However, decoding CPU load is much less than encoding and 
most modern systems can handle it fine. My Duron 800 machine can do it.

Jonathan Rogers