For the archives.... I finally got back to this project, and I think that I've found a working solution. I had considered using this issue as an excuse to buy a Mac Mini, but I just couldn't stand to give up on getting this working since I thought that it *should* work. :)
On Sunday 20 August 2006 11:18, T. Bryan wrote: > So, I finally bout a firewire card for my main Linux machine. I'd like to > download the video from my camcorder and burn some DVDs. I've done some > reading, so I have a pretty good idea of the process, but I'm running into > a problem with dropped frames. While DMA was enabled (checked it with hdparm), I think that the main issue was that 32-bit I/O and multi-sector I/O were both disabled. Just making that change fixed most of my problems. I was still seeing dropped frames from time to time, but it was much less of a problem. Today, I rearranged my storage a bit.... > My machine is older, but it's not ancient. > AMD Athlon 1 GHz > 768 MB RAM > Drives: > The video is being stored to /dev/hda. > /dev/hda 160 GB IDE, dmesg says UDMA(100) > /dev/hdc 8 GB IDE, dmesg says UDMA(33) I used to have swap on /dev/hdc. I moved it /dev/hda, and now I can use /dev/hdc as a dedicated drive for capture from the firewire card. I pulled about 30 minutes of video this afternoon without a single dropped frame. Now I just need to figure out how to create DVD menus. ---Tom -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
