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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!
>>   

You can first cat the file and let mplayer read it. This way you wont
need to open the device twice (although I thought v4l2 is supposed to
allow this).

Also you might to have a look at ivtv manager. The last release I found
in found is in the archive:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg03439.html

Greets
Sander
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