Capture while viewing?

[Joe999]

Are there any video capture programs for Linux that allow the user to view the video input while the capture is in progress? I'm hoping to record some gameplay from a PS2 game I recently bought, but it's not an easy prospect when I can't see what's happening on screen. While recording to vhs, then sending that to the tv card for recording is an option, its given a pretty high loss of quality. So I'm hoping someone might have a real way to go about this.

[RadeonWhore]

You could use mencoder, and encode into a file, and play the file with mplayer.

if you output the mencoder file to a pipe file, then copy the pipe to disk, while also using the pipe as an input to mplayer.

[omol]

Originally posted by Joe999
Are there any video capture programs for Linux that allow the user to view the video input while the capture is in progress? I'm hoping to record some gameplay from a PS2 game I recently bought, but it's not an easy prospect when I can't see what's happening on screen. While recording to vhs, then sending that to the tv card for recording is an option, its given a pretty high loss of quality. So I'm hoping someone might have a real way to go about this.

This program (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xawdecode/) may do the trick.

regards,
omol