Levente Novák wrote: >> What I'd like is to be able to do is watch the video stream and >> start/stop recording to disk whenever desired. That way I can avoid >> lengthy dead space prior to the start of the actual video, and stop >> it whenever desired, sort of a real-time stream extraction to disk. > > If you don't mind to use VLC instead of MPlayer, you can watch your > stream and record/dump it to disk whenever you want with a hotkey > combination (Shift+R for recording, Shift+D for dumping). I don't know > if the second time you record during a session the file will be > overwritten or a new file will be created instead, ...
It's exactly what was needed only far, far better, thank you. It's much more functional than mplayer. As long as the video stream from /dev/video? is continuous, toggling the recording function with Shift-R first creates then appends the file, e.g. $HOME/vlc-record-2009-11-20-04h23m44s-video0-.mpg If the video stream is broken, such as stopping and starting the VHS playback, then the next Shift-R creates a new file with the current timestamp in the filename. _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
