On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:48 +1200 Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Nick Rout wrote: > > 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. > > > Thanks Nick, will try that later. I have been through the man page (all > 600+ lines)& html doc. > > I havnt got mythtv working yet. > > Barry
you might want to read this: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/tv-input.html
