From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Dec 2 15:49:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA16735 for multimedia-outgoing; Tue, 2 Dec 1997 15:49:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia) Received: from ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de [134.147.6.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA16720 for ; Tue, 2 Dec 1997 15:49:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roberte@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de) Received: (from roberte@localhost) by ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (8.8.5/8.8.4) id AAA27032 for multimedia@freebsd.org; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 00:49:10 +0100 (MEZ) From: Robert Eckardt Message-Id: <199712022349.AAA27032@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Subject: fxtv-0.46 to raw device (cont'd) To: multimedia@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 00:49:10 +0100 (MEZ) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Oops, sorry pilot error: > Another thing I noticed: > dd bs=4k count=10000 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd1s2 gives me > 6307378 bytes/sec, running smoothly. > Using fxtv on that device lets the disk heads scatter (swap ?) > and Optimize only gives 256x192@24fps with no CPU- or disk-intensive > processes running. This was with 2 of the 3 capture files still enabled in .Xdefaults. With *only* the raw device it captures smootly 384x288@25fps. > Finally, is it planned or is s.o. already working on converting > a RAW-file directly (e.g., a stream of piped commands) to an > MPEG-stream ? This reminds me of another question: Are there any programs that can work on RAW files ? Or what is the RAW target for ? TIAOM, Robert -- Robert Eckardt \\ FreeBSD -- solutions for a large universe.(tm) RobertE@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de \\ What do you want to boot tomorrow ?(tm) http://WWW.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de/~roberte For PGP-key finger roberte@gluon.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de