On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:07:23 +1200
Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The command:
> 
> mplayer -tv input=2:driver=v4l2:width=640:height=480 tv:// -vo xv,
> 
> Will display input via composite2 on the screen but I want to save to a 
> file on disk. I presume -dumpfile & -dumpstream will do what I want but 
> What alteration do I make to achieve this?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Barry
> 

mythtv?

seriously folks! I am pretty sure you need to use mencoder to record tv 
(mencoder is the transcoding companion to mplayer)

Encode from a tuner (specify a format with -vf format):
mencoder -tv driver=v4l:width=640:height=480 tv:// -o tv.avi -ovc raw

is what the mplayer/mencoder man page suggests

plus whatever other paramaters you needed from your mplayer line, I would 
suggest the following, combinig your mplayer line with the above:

mencoder -tv input=2:driver=v4l:width=640:height=480 tv:// -o tv.avi -ovc raw 

you won't be watching at the same time, but you can run simultaneously

mplayer tv.avi

if you cpu can hack encoding and decoding at the same time.

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