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

[Joseph Caputo]

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.
>  
>

MPlayer supports ordinary tuner cards.  Just run "mplayer tv://[channel] 
[options]".  See the manpage for available options.  Or, you could use 
xawtv or another similar V4L program.

-JAC