[MPlayer-users] Watching a filmand recording it at the same time?

[Corey Hickey]

Laurent Dufréchou wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've bought a plextor convertx that record video streams, thus under linux.
> I'm using a software,(gorecord) that outout the encoded stream to stdout.
> Then using 'bfr' the stream is buffered and used by mplayer to watch the
> tv...
> The cool thing with bfr is that  can define a 100MB file to do some sort
> of 'pause tv'.
> my command line:
> ./gorecord -input 0 -mode secam-l -bitrate 4000 astdout /dev/null
> 2>/dev/null | bfr -m 800000 -b 100000000 -p | mplayer -vo gl2 -delay
> -0.3 -vf pp=mcdeint=3  test.avi - >/dev/null 2>/dev/null &
> 
> What I need now, is to record the stream *At the same time I watch it
> with mplayer*.
> Does mplayer got some options to save a stream at the same it displays
> it on screen?

You can try using tee, such as:
.... | tee savedfile | mplayer -

-Corey