On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 09:32 +0300, Matthieu Weber wrote: > The problem with ringbuffers is, that they limit the amount of time you > can pause the TV.
It's true that my ringbuffer patch does limit you this way, but there's no fundamental reason for this limitation. I plan to implement a variable length buffer (so you can keep X minutes of stuff you've already watched, and buffer Y minutes of stuff you haven't). I don't think it'll be that hard to do, and won't require any more modifications to MPlayer. > And you won't use an awful lot of disk space if you don't pause the show > at all (remember: 1 hour = 2GB of data in some cases). 2GB an hour isn't _that_ much when you consider 80GB is a "small" disk these days. Besides, in practice, I'd _want_ a huge ring buffer, about 3 hours, in case I decide after I've done watching a show that I say, "Oh, I really want to keep this." I can hit a button and it'll save it out to a separate file from the ringbuffer. Cheers, Jason.
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