xawtv: Recording movies

[Net Llama!]

On 02/17/04 16:58, Jerry McBride wrote:
> On Monday 16 February 2004 10:37 pm, Joel Hammer wrote:
> 
>>Is anybody recording movies with xawtv off cable? I can
>>capture still frames, but attempts to capture a video
>>sequence just seems to freeze things up.
>>
>>Any suggestions appreciated,
>>
> 
> 
> Hi Joel,
> 
> You have enough horsepower to stream the data to disk? If not, have a gander 
> at the dma setting of the harddrive via hdparm and if nothing else, raise the 
> priority of the application you sue via the nice command. I've got an old 
> Hauppaug WinTV Go card that works with a cable sgnal or s-video from my sat. 
> receiver... No drop outs, just very little disk space... :').

<Shameless XFS plug>
XFS was designed for this sorta thing.  It handles very large files 
better than just about any other Unixy filesystem out there, and also 
has special built in functionality for real-time applications (like 
streaming media)
</Shameless XFS plug>


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