MPlayer

From Luke Jackson

Summary

MPlayer is a free and open source media player distributed under the GNU General Public License. The program is available for all major operating systems, including Linux and other Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Versions for OS/2, AmigaOS and MorphOS are also available. The Windows versions works, with some minor problems, also in DOS using HX DOS Extender. A port of DOS using DJGPP is available too.

Capture Cards

This is the command I use to watch TV from my WinTV-PVR-150:

mplayer -vf pp=fd,scale -ao sdl /dev/video0