[MPlayer-users] tv grabbing

[Ville Saari]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 03:40:01PM +0800, Mick wrote:

> > Is there something you thought you'd get from using a FIFO?
> > 
> Ignoring the fact my HD will probably not keep up, i thought the CPU
> would have more 'time' to encode without dropping frames..

You appear to have misunderstood how fifo works. The speed of the
hard disk is totally irrelevant, because the data is copied directly
between the writing and reading processes. Fifo also doesn't buffer any
significant amount of data, so it won't help in smoothing the cpu load.

-- 
 Ville