[MPlayer-users] Capture: video buffer full - dropping frame

[Martin Collins]

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 15:59:24 +0200
Heine Laursen <maillist at gozar.dynu.com> wrote:

> But still, I don't know for sure, my capture cart support or don't
> support hardware mjpeg

Very few cards do hardware mjpeg, namely Matrox Marvels, LML33 and
a couple of Pinnacles. Yours almost certainly doesn't.

> Are you serius? As far as I know, the more work you send through
> your computer, the harder it is to capture?

Not exactly. A machine as fast as yours has more than enough CPU to
do some extra work at capture. The bottleneck will be your discs if
you are capturing raw or lossless.

> Would it not be better to do it when I future encode it to another
> format?

Maybe, it depends what you are trying to do. I take it you want to edit
then reencode for archiving, in which case do all processing later.
The problem is having enough disc space to capture a lot of footage
in raw or lossless format. You may find it more realistic to capture
in the final format and just edit that, if you can find a suitable
editor.

Martin