[MPlayer-users] Can't get mplayer -tv to play back audio input

[Reimar Döffinger]

Christian Jaeger <chrjae at gmail.com> wrote:
>I'm trying to play (and later on record, using mencoder (?)) video from
>a
>USB frame grabber device. The following shows video, but not audio.
>Why?
>
>  mplayer -tv 'device=/dev/video0:driver=v4l2:alsa:adevice=hw.0,0' -vf
>kerndeint tv://

MPlayer by default assumes you put the audio onto the speakers directly, you need to add the option to make it record audio (don't remember the name just now). It should work with mencoder since that one defaults to recording audio.