On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 06:31:19AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A question about capturing videos to a Samba share... > > When Apple's Final Cut Pro captures video files, it pre-allocates file space > on the destination volume. > > If you capture to a local volume that's physically attached to a Macintosh, > or if you capture to a network volume via AFP (Apple File Sharing Protocol), > you can see that Final Cut instantly creates a file of the anticipated size > on the destination volume at the moment just before capture begins (the > anticipated size is based on the maximum capture time limit set by a user). > > However, when capturing videos to a Windows or Samba share, Final Cut > actually will write out "dummy data" to a file, and then presumably it > replaces the > dummy data with real data as the capture moves along. > > Effectively, this makes Samba and Windows shares useless for capturing Final > Cut videos. Because, for instance, if you expect to capture a 20-minute DV > clip, it will take approximately 10 minutes to create the pre-allocated file > before capturing even begins -- even when you are connecting via a dedicated > Gigabit Ethernet link. The process seems to chug along unbelievably slowly. > And if you were capturing uncompressed video (which has about 5x the data > rate > of DV video) well, the wait would be interminable. > > Can anybody on this list see a way to allow Final Cut to instantly create > that pre allocated file space that it wants to create on a Samba share? Are > their any Samba settings that could make this possible? It would be a coup > for > Samba! > > BTW, Apple's IMovie doesn't go through this pre allocation business. But, > alas, IMovie doesn't capture timecode data, so Final Cut users who want to > work > with Samba shares can't simply switch to IMovie for capturing their videos.
That's a Mac client issue. We do support "sparse" pre-allocation on the server side. I'd raise it as a bug with Apple. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba