<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Aleksey Lim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alsroot@member.fsf.org">alsroot@member.fsf.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:03:32AM -0400, Erik Blankinship wrote:<br>
> [apologies if this is double posted]<br>
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> I am wondering if anyone has tested Record-61 on an xo-1? Excited to try it<br>
> out myself, but want to check if that is a targeted platform.<br>
><br>
> I ask because a quick glance at the updates to the code (specifically<br>
> glive.py) suggests to me that the xo-1 hardware might have a hard time<br>
> recording video with synchronized audio.<br>
<br>
</div></div>Well, old code did only video encoding on-the-fly<br>
I added audio encoding to use only one pass -</blockquote><div><br></div><div>The xo-1 did not seem to have the processing power to successfully encode video and audio simultaneously. The resulting videos were very choppy when played back (both video and audio).</div>
<div><br></div><div>The xo-1 also did not have enough drive space (or speed?) to hold large amounts of uncompressed video.</div><div><br></div><div>Therefore, the video was encoded on-the-fly, and the audio was saved directly to disk (uncompressed audio takes up less space than the uncompressed video). </div>
<div><br></div><div>The final step was to mux and encode the audio into one file.</div><div><br></div><div>I suspect a similar solution for video with synchronized audio might be required for other netbooks with limited hardware resources.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I am not sure how the sugar team plans to target activities to different platforms.</div><div><ul><li>download record-notebook-61.xo or record-netbook-61.xo ?</li><li>activity-authors query the system for flags about the hardware's capabilities and in the case of record use a different set of pipelines?</li>
</ul></div><div>Erik</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> it seems Record-61 doesn't<br>
require aditional disk space only space for final .ogg(and aditional resources<br>
to read/write to/from disk).<br>
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Anyway it would be nice if you tested it on XO.<br>
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<font color="#888888">Aleksey<br>
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