MPlayer and Stutter-free TV

Posted on November 8, 2006
Filed Under /dev/null/ | 97 views |

After much mucking about and too little reading of the MPlayer man pages, this combination got me stutter-free TV playback:

~$ mplayer /dev/video0 -nocache -framedrop

Is there a better way?

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