It's not your system. I have tried streamer on a
dual PIII 800 with 512MB and a 10,000rpm
Ultra160 drive and still lost audio / video sync.
If I get any free time in the next couple months
I am going to try and see if I can hack some
better A/V sync into streamer.
--Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew A. Chen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Tony Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 9:10 AM
Subject: [V4L] streamer
>
> >I'm now running 2.4.0 and it is stable, no oops yet in the first two
> >hours of recording. I'll look at bttv2 (which I take is the BTTV V4L2
> >driver) and I take it I'll discover what deviceX is in the process...
> >Linux 2.4.0 is a much cleaner install than 2.2.18 was, I'm waiting for
> >this to fall over, at the moment it occasionally gets 4 frames behind,
> >that is all.
> >while true ; do
> > AVI=`date '+/home/chomp0/%H%M_%d%h%y.avi'`
> > nice -n -10 streamer -r 10 -t 9000 -o $AVI -f mjpeg -F mono16 -R 16000
> >done
> >So, what's the biggest project in terms of number of TV channels and
> >hours of archive that anyone'll own up to on this list???
>
> How does that streamer command work for you at all, if you're losing
> frames? If you lose frames, the audio/video drop out of sync, which makes
> that file somewhat useless, no? I use this, and I constantly get pages
and
> pages of 4-8 frames lost. I've even tried to increase the buffer size in
> the btt driver.
>
> streamer -r 29.97 -t 9000 -o /mnt/media/foo.avi -j 60 -f mjpeg -F
stereo -R
> 8000
>
> I just end up with pages and pages of this:
> rate: video is 8 frames behind
> rate: video is 8 frames behind
> rate: video is 7 frames behind
> rate: video is 7 frames behind
>
> This is a celeron 600 with 128MB RAM on an Intel D815EEAL board, hooked up
> to a UDMA/100 40GB drive... Am I running low on cpu speed, memory size,
> drive speed, or something else? I really want to get this to work. The
> key for me is getting ~320x240 at 29.97fps... Thanks.
>
> -a
>
>
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