Yes, but make sure you don't let mplayer get too close to the end of the stream, otherwise funky things start happening. :)
But, yes, as long as you take some precautions, it does work quite reliably, of course. I do the same thing here: http://sault.org/mebox/livetv.php
I love your project. Your canvas display looks awsome! I am thinking I might copy your menu style to my own project :)
Your use of ring buffer is interesting. How many seconds do you keep mplayer behind? If accidentaly mplayer read ahead of the recorder, will it be playing old program forever?
I am currently using a 3-file buffer. I had the recorder to put a sequence number at the beginning of each file to prevent the decoder to read out of sequence, although I am using my own program to dumping mpeg stream to the pvr350 decoder directly.
If anyone interested, I am working on a pvr project specially for pvr350 with a console only headless PC.
Cheers, -- Hui Zhou
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