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

[Justin Gombos]

* Justin Gombos <mindfuq at fairfieldi.com> [2005-03-16 20:05]:
>
> For those who have an ordinary frame grabber, with no hardware
> codec, what raw format is typically returned from the capture card?
> AVI?

To answer my own question, it seems YV12 is designated as the raw
uncompressed format.  But I don't get why it's not listed here:

>   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.

>From the video4linux archives, it appears that mplayer handles YV12
streams.