Block noise? when trying to send dv stream to video camera

Alexander Nedotsukov bland at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jul 12 22:46:20 PDT 2004


Hidetoshi Shimokawa wrote:

Okay. Given what I said bellow does it mean that something broken in 
-CURRENT i/o sytem?
In all situations I did not have any disk i/o activity except fwcontrol 
process read()s.

All the best,
Alexander.

>For DV, you need to keep about 3MB/s disk I/O all the time.
>You may need a dedicated HD drive for a DV file.
>
>Though it's best to have some feedback mechanism to adjust
>timestamps, I have no plan to do so now.
>
>Latest TI's 1394b chip seems to have some extension for hardware
>timestamping for DV packets. I don't know details.
>
>/\ Hidetoshi Shimokawa
>\/  simokawa at sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
>PGP public key: http://www.sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~simokawa/pgp.html
>
>
>At Tue, 13 Jul 2004 11:22:07 +0900,
>Alexander Nedotsukov wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi. It's me again.
>>Is someone still care about broken dv upload on -CURRENT here is a small 
>>addition to all I said before under the topic. Yestarday I was requeired 
>>to boot up from 5.2.1 live cd and someting :-) pushed me to try 
>>fwcontrol -S. All I can say it just works. Same machine, same dv file, 
>>same video camera.
>>All the best,
>>Alexander.
>>
>>    
>>



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