Simon Baxter wrote: >>> Since then I've been watching the streams in unencoded MPEG2 (over >>> wireless 802.11b LAN to XP client)- but windows media player >>> occasionally fails back to the beginning of the stream, requiring me >>> to skip ahead from the beginning and try to find where I got up to. >>> >> >> >> how do you do it? > > > Primitive but, I use crontab to schedule like this : > > 57 20 21 2 * /root/bin/tzap -c /root/.tzap/channels.conf -r 'f tn' > 58 20 21 2 * /bin/cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 > > /fifty/video/Colin_Fry_210204.mpeg > 04 22 21 2 * /fifty/video/kill_record.sh > 05 22 21 2 * /fifty/video/kill_tune.sh > > > > then on my XP box I just double click the .mpeg file (from a samba > share), and it loads in Windows Media Player Classic. > well, the file always grows, so I guess wmp rewinds when it reaches the position that I considered final when it opened the file. vlc and mplayer should play better and lighter
