Watching and Simultaneously Saving Video in mplayer - is it possible?


This is a question I've posed in the Ubuntu forums, but I haven't found the answer yet. I've got a great little IP security camera - the Y-Cam. It's Internet accessible, so it can email me photos of any suspicious behaviour. It will also stream video and audio to a number of devices - including mobiles. Under Linux, it's very easy to get the video and audio via mplayer. mplayer http://username:password@example.com/stream.asf And we get this rather spiffy video playing. In fact, there are …

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