When I point mplayer at /dev/video0 or use vlc's streaming option to do the same, the video stream plays fine for a while, but then after a couple minutes it starts to get jerky. Also, in some cases eventually the audio gets out of synch with the video (this usually seems to happen when changing channels, rewinding a tape, or doing something similar that shakes up the normal stream of things).
If I cat /dev/video0 to a file, these symptoms never occur. I assume that the problem lies somehow in the synchronization between the playback software and the encoding software. Pressing the 'forward' button in mplayer, for instance, causes it to start playing properly again. Since I'm not worried about the encoding functioning correctly, I guess what I'm asking is how other people watch live video without issue. I know mythtv is typically employed, but doesn't it just use other engines, like mplayer's, for the same purpose? Thanks, James _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
