[MPlayer-users] mencoder TV Capture - video buffer full

[Ben Buxton]

David Frey <dpfrey at shaw.ca> uttered the following thing:
> 
> After I run the command, I can see my memory usage rising quickly in
> gkrellm.  Once the memory is almost all used up, this error is printed
> over and over quite quickly "video buffer full - dropping frame".  I

This is the video buffer filling, exactly what the message says. Mencoder
will use a lot of memory buffering (half physical memory). You
can adjust it with the 'buffersize=' option.

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Ben Buxton - Random Network Person