[MPlayer-users] Mplayer as TIVO

[Krister Lagerstrom]

Tod Schmidt wrote:

 > So pausing, skipping forward and back work
> perfectly in the still-being-written nuv file. 

Thanks for the tip! I'm working on a project to use MPlayer as one of 
the core components in a TiVo-capable linux box (using a TV+remote), 
check out http://freevo.sourceforge.net. The software is in beta, but it 
is usuable. It can record TV in realtime (320x240 XviD MPEG-4 on 
P3/450MHz), but nuppelvideo+mplayer is probably better for timeshifting.

I tested NUVrec (from NVrec) + MPlayer briefly, and it'd be nice to have 
MPlayer not exit at the end of the file, instead just reading new data 
as the file grows. Is there a switch for that (shame on me, I didn't 
read the fine manual :-), or is it being worked on?

> Mplayer is little jumpy for me when
> recording/playing tvinput directly, and of course does
> not do audio (yet). 

Is there a problem with some/many/most soundcards that they can't do 
full duplex audio? That is, record something on line-in and play back 
something else on line-out?

		/ Chris