[vdr] Re: Recordings menu sluggish - *the* solution.

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

"Dr. Werner Fink" wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 07:59:55PM +0200, Carsten Koch wrote:
> > Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
> > >>
> > >>I guess a patch that uses this should be trivial.
> > >
> > >
> > >If you're using O_DIRECT you've to provide the thread which writes
> > >out the stuff in background.  In other words: you need a ringbuffer
> > >an own thread and the interface for your application.
> > >
> > >If you not do this the application has to wait (e.g. a big DB using
> > >O_DIRECT for secure data transfer) upto the point where teh data has
> > >be put onto the physical sector of your disk ;)
> >
> > Isnt there code in vdr already that does this?
> 
> Reading for playback yes.  Recording and cuting no.

cRecorder does use a ring buffer.

Klaus


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