On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 12:27, Marcus Metzler wrote: > Hi, > I am looking for a capture program that can record mpg4 or mpg1/2 and at the > same time display via Xvideo from a v4l source (no v4l2). The whole > thing should work with a 1200MHz CPU. The recording quality should be > at least VHS level. I tried ffmpeg (all supported codecs) for > recording and decoding with mplayer, but there seem to be problems > with synching and maybe also with processor speed. mp1e would not > record with the saa7146 (from DVB driver). I've been playing with MythTV; it can do real-time encoding to MPEG4 and simultaneously view something -- the only issue is that I'm not sure if you can view what you are recording or if you can only view something else. If you're not familiar with it, MythTV does some tivo-like functions; in particular, you can "pause live tv" and it provides an electronic program guide (which is populated with data from XMLTV), and of course you can schedule recordings as well. As long as your CPU and Disk can keep up, you can play one thing and record another at the same time. Also, it has support for multiple tuner cards and can do picture-in-picture as well. - Dave
