[SOLVED] MPlayer Streaming Capture Video

[Dreugan]

I am trying to use Mplayer to streamdump video from a capture card.
I have followed the commands to the best of my ability, however, I
cannot get any confirmation of the dump or find the stream.dump
file. Any help you can assist me with would be helpful. The command
following is what I am using.




gmplayer -dumpstream -tv driver=v4l:input=1:norm=NTSC:width=640:height=480
tv://


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The input is composite video and the resolution is so it displays
properly.

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Thanks again for your assistance.

[Choozo]

I would guess that you need to specify an output file too?

man mplayer for more info...

[cybertron]

You also might want to try it with regular mplayer instead of gmplayer. For that matter, mencoder might be more what you're looking for, although I don't know whether that does streams or not.

[Dreugan]

My main problem isn't getting it to record or to play the video. The problem is getting it to do both at the same time. With the -dumpstream command it automatically saves it as stream.dump which you can then change the file name and encode it to a different format. I am willing to try different capture software if need be. I need the ability to watch and record at the same time. I appreciate your help and any further assistance you have.

Dreugan

[cybertron]

Whoops, this ended up in my inbox for a long time!

This isn't very helpful, but I seem to recall someone mentioning somewhere that MPlayer doesn't record video and audio both from tv cards. I don't know why that is, but when you say that's your problem it rings a bell, so I think I did actually read it. I don't recall whether there was a solution, but you might want to try searching the mailing list on http://www.mplayerhq.hu and see if there's anything there about it.

Afraid that's all I know about it. Sorry.

[Dreugan]

with ffmpeg you can do both at the same time. you just have to pipe the commands on the same line. Thanks all for your help.

[cybertron]

Glad to hear you got it working.:)