On 4 Aug 2003, Gerd Knorr wrote: > > The "waste of memory" argument isn't true too. With multiple buffers > applications can let the hardware fill buffers and process (other) > buffers in parallel. I guess xawtv works, but prints plenty of > "waiting for a free buffer" messages. That indicates xawtv would > perform better with more buffers.
The waste of memory argument only works if you ignore user space. If the driver doesn't provide multiple buffers, then the application has to. The buffers are still there, they've just moved. -- video4linux-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list
