[MPlayer-users] Video over firewire (IEEE 1394) from a digital cable box

[Ergzay]

As the topic states I'm trying to play video from my Comcast digital  
cable box using the Firewire (IEEE 1394) port on the back. There is a  
tool I use called FireRecord to record this video but I want to be  
able to play live the MPEG-TS stream that is coming from this. I've  
seen ways of doing this installing things into the kernel in linux but  
I want to know if this is currently possible with the current mplayer  
and without doing something drastic on Mac OS X like recompiling the  
darwin kernel (if possible). I've also seen that Myth TV can do this  
as well but that app is way too complex for its own good.