Hi Scott, On Fri, 1999-01-01 at 10:52, Scott T. Bowden wrote: > I can understand that, but a question: do you know when you might actually > get around to putting this in? This just seems like kind of a big thing, > seeing as one of the major uses for bttv devices is (IME) the recording of > television shows, and this 2GB limit puts a serious damper on this. After the 1.6.0 release. mjpegtools-1.6.0 could be released at any moment now, so it could be pretty soon. (But then, we need to test, release a new version, so seeing support for >2 GB files in a new released version might take a few months.) > I tried out lavrec, and it seems to have a tendency to cause my system to > hang. If I run it at root (so that it can set negative priorities on its > threads), it eventually causes my system to lock up (this is while I am > using X on the same system, and I haven't tested if this happens when I'm > not using X). We've heard more of such problems, most people where using nvidia.com's binary drivers. Odd interaction ;-)... I've tested with the newest binary drivers and X 4.2.0 and experienced no problem. Submit a bug report, please ;-). > I tried running it as a non-root user, and it seemed to work fine, > although I did have to increase the buffer size. However, after running > it, I tried to go into X (I had just rebooted, and lavrec was the only > thing running), and I got a kernel panic. I can only assume that lavrec > was the culprit, as it is the only "new" thing I was running at the time, > and it did cause my system to hang on 5 occasions while running as root. It sounds really odd to me. I can just say: try the newest kernel, newest BTTV driver, newest mjpegtools beta release (or latest CVS). Try to run it (without nvidia.com's binary drivers or similar things) and submit a bug report to our mailinglist (don't forget to mention your hardware configuration). > On top of this, the files that I recorded with lavrec generate a lot of > warnings and errors when I run them through mencoder (which I've been > using to do divx4 encoding of the avis). So, I'm kind of back to square 1. > I can use lavrec, but it seriously destabilizes my system, and outputs > problematic files (apparently). Or, I can use streamer, which is limited > to 2GB recordings. Any other options out there? As far as I know, you're supposed to run mjpegtools' AVI decoder (lav2yuv/lav2wav), which outputs raw YUV (video) and WAV (audio) data. This can be fed into mencoder to create divx4 files. There's also lav2divx, which is mjpegtools' own divx-encoder (based on avifile). Ronald -- - .-. - /V\ | Ronald Bultje <rbultje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - // \\ | Running: Linux 2.4.18-XFS and OpenBSD 3.0 - /( )\ | http://ronald.bitfreak.net/ - ^^-^^
