[mythtv-users] Does mplayer work on frame grabbers?

[Alexander Varakin]

You answered your question yourself: you will get RAW format from such card.
Mplayer comes with program mencoder which will do exactly what you want. But I 
would suggest to use myth for recording. With myth you can record into mpeg4 
at high bit rate and then reencode into something better using mencoder.

On Wednesday 16 March 2005 19:56, Justin Gombos wrote:
> For those who have an ordinary frame grabber, with no hardware codec,
> what raw format is typically returned from the capture card?  AVI?
>
> In my case, I have an AverMedia DVD EZMaker (based off the Philips
> saa7130 chip).  Should I be able to pipe the signal from this card
> into mplayer (using 'mplayer /dev/video0'), considering the following
> formats?
>
>   mplayer is a movie player for Linux (runs on many other platforms
>   and CPU architectures, see the documentation).  It plays most
>   MPEG/VOB, AVI, ASF/WMA/WMV, RM, QT/MOV/MP4, OGG/OGM, MKV, VIVO, FLI,
>   NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM and RoQ files, supported by many native
>   and binary codecs.  You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX
>   3/4/5 and even WMV movies, too.