On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 5:02 PM, B. Bogart <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ben@ekran.org">ben@ekran.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
One thing that is clear is that the CPU overhead is too high, but the<br>
disk usage very very low. I'd rather balance things out to use more disk<br>
IO to save decoding cycles.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>That is the key to all codecs. Uncompressed doesn't require CPU to decode but the disk requirements can be very high. Delivery codecs like MPEG and H.264 are the reverse situation. <br></div><div>
<br>Use a JPEG based or professional capture codec like DVC whenever possible. <br></div></div>