[MPlayer-users] TV timeshifting

[Nico Sabbi]

Il giorno sab, 28/03/2009 alle 09.33 +0100, Jimmy Dansbo ha scritto:
> Hi,
> 
> I have tried searching both google and this mailing list to no avail.
> I would like to record TV and at the same time play it with the ability to
> pause and seek backward and forward.
> 
> I have tried with several different encoding options, but when I play the
> file (while it is beeing created) and try to seek, mplayer just tells me
> that the stream is not seekable.
> 
> When I stop mencoder and then play the file, there are no problems at all. I
> can seek all I want.
> 
> My question is: How do I get mencoder to create a stream that is seekable
> while it is beeing created?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Regards
> Jimmy

few formats are seekable while being played: not avi/mov or any other
that depend on an index: mpeg is seekable, but with a lot of guessing
required.