[Kwintv] Comments on latest qtvision

[George Staikos]

On October 24, 2002 21:37, Rizsanyi Zsolt wrote:
> On Friday 25 October 2002 01:04, George Staikos wrote:
> > On October 24, 2002 18:50, Rizsanyi Zsolt wrote:
> > > >    The real question is, why would anyone want to use the same v4l
> > > > device from both v4l-direct and v4l-xv-bridge?  This is more for
> > > > development purposes. After that, the device will be either v4l or
> > > > Xv, but not both.
> > >
> > > Yes you are right.
> > > Why I asked for this was that when you try to record under zapping it
> > > automatically changes to v4l mode, and you can easily switch back when
> > > you are done with it. (if I understand it correctly you can not do
> > > recording with xvideo).
> > > But then you know that the user wants to switch driver, so that case is
> > > different.
> >
> >    Hmm.  Interesting.  I'll have to think about that.  However, V4L mode
> > is almost as good as Xv mode for me.  It only uses 10% cpu which is
> > acceptable. If we could improve on this, then we probably wouldn't need
> > to worry too much.  I really hate to make special cases in the code for
> > this.
>
> I would also note, that here it uses more than 30% CPU, and I dont have
> much worse cpu than you (1.2GHz athlon).

   Yikes that's not good.  Do you have DDR ram?  Maybe it has to do with G450 
vs G550?  I'm not sure.

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George Staikos