Thanks for the information. I was never real clear which 'c' values to use. Might be useful to update the man page to indicate reasons to lower/raise it.
I'd been using nuppelrec for about 6 months with good results run through yuvkineco - an occasional glitch but not bad. I modified nuppelrec to write lzo-compressed 'raw' frames after purchasing a larger drive (I like nuppelrec :-) Anyway, after doing this yuvkineco was worse. Come to find out nuppelrec was dropping a lot of frames but not reporting it as such (Drop: 0 was also displayed, but there were other messages saying it was having problems but continuing - didn't realize that meant it lost a frame...) I've now modified nuppelrec to use fieldnr, changed my large filesystem from reiserfs back to ext3 (ext3 seems to perform better with really large files - had been using ext3 prior to upgrading the drive and wasn't having so many problems). Also made a few 'tweaks' to nuppelrec and am now able to record for a long time without a drop. Have had a recording going for about 90 minutes with other things running on the system and haven't observed a dropped frame come through yet. I'm really pleased with it now. Had also found that whenever my wife changes the speed of the ceiling fan that it causes a little noise to come across that sometimes confuses the card - fieldnr reports more fields than it really received during the time interval, so I have a 'backup' method that uses timestamps to validate the results of fieldnr...though this is a really rare case that takes lots of times flipping the switch to make it fool fieldnr :-) And from previous messages I've started recording interlaced rather than using yuvkineco - but I'm considering moving back to yuvkineco for movies. After all, I'm getting no drops at all while recording now, and since it is raw it oughta' work great with yuvkineco. I gotta' say I've had a lot of fun since I started playing with this stuff last spring. I've learned more than I ever wanted to know about video capture, but now that I've got everything working just about perfect (except the DVD player counts a bit awkward, which I believe Andrew Stevens has a fix for that I've not been able to try yet because I can't build from what I pull from CVS) I'm really enjoying it. -- Ray ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users
