On Mon, November 23, 2009 2:54 pm, Stephen Rowles wrote: > On 11/23/2009 11:23 AM, Adam Charrett wrote: >> At a guess, your HDDs don't have enough bandwidth to record 2 streams to >> disk and playback 1 all at the same time. The reason for the macro >> blocks >> and audio pops is the data isn't being fed fast enough to the decoders >> (xine/mplayer). >> >> I see you've mention your CPU, RAM, motherboad and cards, but you've >> forgotten the major limiting factor your HDD! >> >> I solution, if you have 2 HDDs, is to record onto 1 and livepause onto >> the >> other and see if that makes a difference. >> >> The more expensive option is to buy a consumer grade HDD (Seagate DB35 >> type) which have better streaming performance and larger temperature >> ranges. >> >> Which reminds me have you checked the temperature of your HDD? When I've >> experienced problems like this in the past it has been because the HDD >> was >> v hot (and gotten some bad sectors as a result). >> >> Hope this helps. >> >> Ada > Is it possible to do a pure memory buffer with the new livepause > plug-in? Now I have a machine with plenty of free ram (unlike last time > I tried using it) and no real requirements to buffer more than 1gig with > live pause (in fact for SD streaming, 500meg or less would do me just > fine). > > Can I configure live pause just to use an in memory buffer instead or > going to disk?
Already possible just use tmpfs, simply mount a directory with tmpfs setup with the required amount of memory you want to use for buffering and point livepause at it. Cheers Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
