[TriLUG] Troubleshooting dropped frames with firewire and dvgrab

[Matt Pusateri]

Have you looked at dvdstyler?  I haven't used it but it's supposed to
be able to create menus.  I think it's command line driven, no gui
though.

Matt

On Sun, December 24, 2006 10:29 pm, T. Bryan wrote:
> For the archives....
>
> I finally got back to this project, and I think that I've found a
> working
> solution.  I had considered using this issue as an excuse to buy a Mac
> Mini,
> but I just couldn't stand to give up on getting this working since I
> thought
> that it *should* work.  :)
>
> On Sunday 20 August 2006 11:18, T. Bryan wrote:
>> So, I finally bout a firewire card for my main Linux machine.  I'd
>> like to
>> download the video from my camcorder and burn some DVDs.  I've done
>> some
>> reading, so I have a pretty good idea of the process, but I'm
>> running into
>> a problem with dropped frames.
>
> While DMA was enabled (checked it with hdparm), I think that the main
> issue
> was that 32-bit I/O and multi-sector I/O were both disabled.  Just
> making
> that change fixed most of my problems.  I was still seeing dropped
> frames
> from time to time, but it was much less of a problem.  Today, I
> rearranged my
> storage a bit....
>
>> My machine is older, but it's not ancient.
>> AMD Athlon 1 GHz
>> 768 MB RAM
>> Drives:
>> The video is being stored to /dev/hda.
>> /dev/hda 160 GB IDE, dmesg says UDMA(100)
>> /dev/hdc 8 GB IDE, dmesg says UDMA(33)
>
> I used to have swap on /dev/hdc.  I moved it /dev/hda, and now I can
> use
> /dev/hdc as a dedicated drive for capture from the firewire card.  I
> pulled
> about 30 minutes of video this afternoon without a single dropped
> frame.
>
> Now I just need to figure out how to create DVD menus.
>
> ---Tom
>
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