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

[Nico Sabbi]

Ulrich Schweitzer wrote:

>On Sunday 10 October 2004 18:43, Martin Collins wrote:
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>>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.
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>There is also a "middle way" that can make sense. Capturing to high 
>bitrate (8Mbps or so) mpeg2 should be possible on any modern computer and 
>will give good quality at a file size that can easily be handled. The 
>resulting file can then be edited and 2-pass-reencoded to mpeg4. I'm 
>pretty sure that this will give better quality than capturing directly to 
>mpeg4 and it's more flexible, too. 
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>Ulrich
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today I tried ffv1 (which is lossless). using cabac=1:context=1 it 
topped at 16 Mb/s,
so it may be a good alternative, but it may be quite slow