From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 14 18:13:46 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8BA616A41C for ; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 18:13:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from steve@sohara.org) Received: from sohara.org (sohara.org [192.220.64.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DDCD43D48 for ; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 18:13:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from steve@sohara.org) Received: (qmail 78748 invoked by uid 16563); 14 Jun 2005 18:13:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO df1) ([80.7.161.165]) (envelope-sender ) by 192.220.64.179 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 14 Jun 2005 18:13:45 -0000 Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 19:13:44 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: Message-Id: <20050614191344.5c90c211.steve@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20050614171117.SBYK13442.lakermmtao05.cox.net@smtp.east.cox.net> References: <20050614171117.SBYK13442.lakermmtao05.cox.net@smtp.east.cox.net> Organization: Steve O'Hara-Smith X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.9.12 (GTK+ 2.6.7; i386-portbld-freebsd4.8) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Capturing video with Intel Smart Video Recorder III X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 18:13:46 -0000 On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 13:11:17 -0400 wrote: > Thanks Steve. I appreciate the help. I will try the env variable when I get home tonight. One more question about the processor speed though. Does it matter that I have nothing else running on the machine (ie no X, MTA, Services except SSH and NFS) as far as performance of capture? Do you think ffmpeg would be able to grab at higher quality if it is the only process running? You'll need a pretty idle machine to make a good capture anyway, but for the most part things like X and MTAs don't eat much CPU unless they're being used quite heavily. I think your best bet is nuppelvideo to capture and recode with mencoder afterwards if space matters. You won't get ffmpeg to capture full resolution on a 400MHz PII no matter what you do. -- C:>WIN | Directable Mirror Arrays The computer obeys and wins. | A better way to focus the sun You lose and Bill collects. | licences available see | http://www.sohara.org/