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On Sun, 28 Jan 1996, Thomas Davis wrote:
> Paul Loomer asks:
> > Any ideas from the crowd? Either in modifying the algorithm or
> > something about disk i/o to handle this.
>
> Cache all of the frames in memory, and then write them out when done? ie
> create a linked list of frames, with time stamps, and allow one to edit
> them/display them/write them out. This is how the movie program under
> Windows appears to work..
Not exactly. I accidentally left my Qcam running time lapse and went to
bed last night (I move around a bit in my sleep...) and when I awoke, 200
MB had been chewed up by temp files from QuickMovie. I also noticed that
it writes to disk every n seconds, as if writing a frame.
With enough swap space, you could just buffer it all, then write it out
later, couldn't you? Or does anyone know a way to get around the kernel
buffering and do a direct write? Maybe we should ask God^H^H^HLinus...
Later,
-B
Brandon High http://www.ccnet.com/~bjhigh Down with Big Brother!
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