Re: VDR recording glitches

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

"Ralph Metzler <" wrote:
> 
> [...]
> - disk caching
> 
>   The disk might be fast anough but data is first written to the
>   buffer memory. When the cache is full it suddenly has to write very
>   much data and might not be able to free the MPEG buffer quickly enough.
>   Does VDR support uncached writing?

VDR just uses a simple open() without considering caching or non-caching.
Maybe somebody who knows more about this could take a look
at the OpenVideoFile() function in VDR's videodir.c to see
if "uncached writing" is an option an improves performance.

Greetings
Klaus
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