[MPlayer-users] v4l record memory usage.

[Jindrich Makovicka]

James Lancaster wrote:

>Mencoder is (or was (pre- or post- rc1?) hardwired to use half the total 
>System memory for v4l capture. Someone is working on patches to have it 
>allocate memory based upon free memory. (I could just imagine someone on a 
>Sun 15K using mecoder twice and freaking out, not that anyone would do such a 
>thing.)
>  
>
As I wrote above, I already comitted it. The buffersize arg now 
specifies the _maximum_ amount of memory which will mencoder eventually 
attempt to allocate.

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Jindrich Makovicka