Here's my setup:

Terminal tab 1:  cat /dev/video0 > ~/some.mpg
Terminal tab 2:  gmplayer ~/some.mpg
Terminal tab 3: ivtv-tune -c<the channel>   (changing channels as  
neccesary)

Its not a fancy PVR, but its good enough for a bit of TV running  
while I work. The bonus is that mplayer's pause *does not* work if  
you are reading directly from the stream, but *does* work if you are  
reading from the intermediary file.

Note: don't forget to periodically rm ~/some.mpg; you'll have a multi- 
Gig file in no-time.

Tom


On 31-Aug-06, at 10:30 AM, Valerio Mariani wrote:

> Uhm... tried and it does not work because the device is busy (of
> course!). Anyone knows if I can watch something with mplayer (or
> mplayer-related utilties) and dump it to a file *at the same time* (I
> know how to do these things  separately)?
>
> Thank you in advance
>
>       Valerio
>>
>> mplayer /dev/video0 to watch and at the same time in another  
>> console, cat /dev/video > recorded.mpg
>>
>> I can write a gui for this simple thing myself!
>>
>
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