John R Pierce wrote:
bad news is, you really should have a separate drive just for video capture to reduce disk contention as the streaming rate of the capture can't be interrupted. its only around 3MB/sec, so its not /that/ bad with today's faster drives, but still.
Well, it depends. If you're just browsing and reading email, a separate drive is really quite unnecessary. I got away with a single drive for everything, I just bumped up the buffers in dvgrab to like 200 frames or so (about 7 seconds for NTSC) and everything was fine.
dvgrab will tell you if it drops frames. If it does, you know you have to either:
- increase the buffer even more - stop messing around with the system - should the previous fail, then get a dedicated drive -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
