xawtv: Recording movies

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 17:32:15 -0800
"Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> 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>

Interesting. This I did not know... Can you point to any info directly
related to this?


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