I just use the at daemon to schedule ffmpeg to record to 700kbps divx in real time. The only problem is that on a machine slower than a 1.7 ghz athlon, the sound is off sync. Occassionally, the sound clips once every few minutes if I don't keep calling sync(). I just have a "watch sync" running in an xterm to handle that. Anyone know if Reiserfs or ext3 is better for this? I suspect the tail packing on Reiser may be slowing the fs down enough to cause the audio sync problems. My cpu is only at about 30-40%, so it can't be process scheduling causing it.
The suspend feature in VMware can just suspend the entire system. The performance hit is usually not too bad for the added features like undoable disks and suspending. This is really helpful when you have a buggy laptop that suspend freezes half the time.
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I just use the at daemon to schedule ffmpeg to record to 700kbps divx in real time. The only problem is that on a machine slower than a 1.7 ghz athlon, the sound is off sync. Occassionally, the sound clips once every few minutes if I don't keep calling sync(). I just have a "watch sync" running in an xterm to handle that. Anyone know if Reiserfs or ext3 is better for this? I suspect the tail packing on Reiser may be slowing the fs down enough to cause the audio sync problems. My cpu is only at about 30-40%, so it can't be process scheduling causing it.
The suspend feature in VMware can just suspend the entire system. The performance hit is usually not too bad for the added features like undoable disks and suspending. This is really helpful when you have a buggy laptop that suspend freezes half the time.