My wishlist entry

[Arne S. <ar...@sc...>]

1. the iso write function.

My motivation for writing the dvgrab program was that the Windows98 grab 
software available to me was too awkward to use. File size limits, no split 
into smaller files, no control about dropped frames and the like. Now, after 
dvgrab is useable, I discovered that the write-back-to-the-camcorder function 
of my Windows98 program suffers from the same deficits too.

In particular: It will write only one file to the camcorder, it has a file size 
limit, the user is not informed about dropped frames, it will not write all 
types of DV-AVI files.

So, once I have the iso write function (or whatever is needed to write data to 
a camcorder), I would like to make a program that will write several AVI files 
in one session, provides feedback about data over-/underrun and supports more 
than one flavour of AVI file.



2. a way of controlling the device driver's buffer size

The 1394 subsystem currently uses a buffer size of 4 MByte, which is hardcoded 
in raw1394.c. I always have a problem with hardcoded limits, they are always 
either too big or too small. One size doesn't fit all. With my somewhat dated 
hardware system (AMD 333, slow IDE disks) I have to change this limit to 24 
MByte to avoid any data loss. Smaller buffer sizes eventually result in dropped 
frames. Remember that I use dvgrab to copy whole tapes to disk, usually 10 
GByte in one session.

My suggestion would be a command line option at insmod time (buf=24M for 
example).

Arne