On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 08:33 -0500, Andy Walls wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 12:17 +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > On Monday, February 28, 2011 12:07:33 Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> 
> > > > So, do I understand it right, that currently there are drivers, that
> > > > overwrite the last buffers while waiting for a new one, and ones, that
> > > > stop capture for that time.
> > 
> > Does anyone know which drivers stop capture if there are no buffers 
> > available? 
> > I'm not aware of any.
> 
> Not that it is a camera driver, but...
> 
> cx18 will stall the stream, due to the CX23418 engine being starved of
> buffers for that stream, if the application doesn't read the buffers.

> The reasoning for this behavior is that one large gap is better than a
> series of small gaps, if the application has fallen behind.
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Gah.  That didn't make sense.  I need more coffee before sending email.


-Andy

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