[MPlayer-users] Using mplayer to access tv-card on remote server.

[RC]

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 09:50:40 +0200
Alex Polite <m4 at polite.se> wrote:

> On fre, okt 22, 2004 at 08:51:04 -0700, RC wrote:
> 
> > Alternatively, you could encode to an easy codec like MPEG1 on the
> > server, then you'd only have to send a small ammount of the data
> > over the network.
> 
> How is it done?
> 
> alex

Something like this...

On the server: mencoder tv:// -tv (your options) -oac lavc -ovc lavc
-lavcopts
acodec=mp2:abitrate=128:vcodec=mpeg1video:vbitrate=1000:vstrict=-1 -o
filename.avi

On the client:  ssh user at host "cat filename.avi" | mplayer -