Capture MPEG-2 in realtime under linux. Is it Possible? [Archive]

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Calabuig

1st June 2004, 09:38

I'd like to capture MPEG-2 in realtime via firewire.
Is it possible under linux?
Thanks in advance for the replies.

echo

2nd June 2004, 22:52

Have you tried mplayer/mencoder? Are you able to use the firewire device in linux and view what is being played? If you are you can try to use
mencoder -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video. Capturing realtime really depends on your harware so if your PC can take it there should be no problem. In general libavcodec is quite fast.