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On 24 Feb 2008, at 11:01, Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> I noticed a very annoying behavior. I've got a headless server (Athlon |
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> 64 X2) which primarily acts as a personal video recorder using |
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> mencoder |
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> and at-daemon. ... |
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> ... My problem is: Neither of them can handle |
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> recording/playing video while there is any background activity. That |
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> means I have to stop the dnet-daemon and suspend any emerges on my |
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> laptop. If I don't, both mencoder and mplayer loose sync of audio and |
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> video and drops frames. |
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> ... |
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Hi there, |
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What capture card are you using to record TV? |
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I would expect most people these days to be receiving some kind of |
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digital signal - DVB-T using an aerial, DVB-S using a dish or DVB-C |
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via cable. Here in the UK, for example, it would be most common to |
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receive DVB-T "Freeview". |
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Receiving a digital signal requires no encoding, practically no |
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processor resources, as the DVB signal is just mpeg, and the card is |
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simply dumping the stream to hard-disk. |
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Are you playing back the video across the network? |
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What processor / RAM configurations do your PCs have? |
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What hard-drives? |
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What size are the videos (pixels) and what format (encoding, bitrate) |
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are they stored in on your hard-drive? |
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I think you have to demonstrate that the problem is processor-bound. |
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My immediate thought upon reports of stuttering is to question disk |
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or network throughput. |
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Stroller. |
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