[MPlayer-users] Mplayer as TIVO

[Stephen Davies]

On Fri, 10 May 2002, Tod Schmidt wrote:

> Just wanted to tell someone that now that a bug in an
> mplayer regarding color from NUV files
> (NuppelVideo0.52a) has been corrected, Mplayer can be
> used very nicely as a TIVO unit. I simply start
> recording (nuvrec -W 640 -H 480 -n test.nuv) and then
> mplayer *.nuv. Because nuv files aren't indexed, some
> wonderful person implemented an alternate seeking
> method that works fine with the still-being-written
> nuv file. So pausing, skipping forward and back work
> perfectly in the still-being-written nuv file. 

Works well with mpeg too - mpeg being a stream format there's no issue
with indexes.

Steve