[mythtv-users] Does mplayer work on frame grabbers?

[Justin Gombos]

For those who have an ordinary frame grabber, with no hardware codec,
what raw format is typically returned from the capture card?  AVI?  

In my case, I have an AverMedia DVD EZMaker (based off the Philips
saa7130 chip).  Should I be able to pipe the signal from this card
into mplayer (using 'mplayer /dev/video0'), considering the following
formats?

  mplayer is a movie player for Linux (runs on many other platforms
  and CPU architectures, see the documentation).  It plays most
  MPEG/VOB, AVI, ASF/WMA/WMV, RM, QT/MOV/MP4, OGG/OGM, MKV, VIVO, FLI,
  NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM and RoQ files, supported by many native
  and binary codecs.  You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX
  3/4/5 and even WMV movies, too.