On 4/27/11, Dan Dennedy wrote: > FYI there are still limitations in Mlt to do preview while capturing. > Also, V4L+ALSA might give less synchronization than what even ffmpeg > provides (which might not be so hot either). Furthermore, in recent > testing, I found Kdenlive's existing Firewire capture to be even more > problematic in the area of preview. It seems ffplay no longer > tolerates stream discontinuity as much as it used to. Anytime you > pause/ff/rewind you introduce this discontinuity. Firewire is an area > I plan to address this summer.
Dunno what's your main OS, but last year firewire stack changed in Linux, and that resulted in all sorts of broken things. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org