On Sunday 15 January 2006 05:30, Jon Winters grooved on as follows: > James Nickerson wrote: > > 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? > > When I want to watch live TV I > > cat /dev/video0 > tv.mpg > > and then > > mplayer tv.mpg > > In addition to keeping things in sync you'll also have the ability to > hit the spacebar and "pause live tv." > > If you happen to do a pause for a few minutes you'll also gain the > ability to fast forward the next set of commercials.
Definitely a good suggestion. I was actually doing that earlier, but ran afoul of the 4GB file size limit. I guess that won't normally bite you on typical length shows. The other problem with that technique is the delay -- Channel-surfing is definitely not going to be very friendly, for instance. But I guess if you know what you want to watch, then there are definitely the advantages you mentioned, plus then the mplayer problem doesn't rear its ugly head. > Jon Winters IBM Model-M Keyboards > http://www.obscura.us/ Type Hard or Go Home! > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
