> I'm currently usually using ffv1rec which is based on nvrec and does a > great job at keeping things in sync. > Take a look at the avidemux.sf.net project for a copy. Sorry. I'm already quite busy with developing the v4l2 import module for transcode. > If I attempt to capture in MJPEG/MPEG4/XVID at full D1 PAL i'm usually ok > with zero or 1 frame drop over a capture, If I switch to HUFFYUV then > there are problems which probably relate to disk i/o. Also when the HD > gets too full i'm in trouble. Yes, little-compressed data can hit the maximum sustained throughput for a harddisk easily. If you run into this, you might try mjpeg as encoder, it's fast and compresses quite good without too much quality loss.