RE: Refreshing windows as often as possible, but not too often

["Chris Jones" <chris black-sun co uk>]

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Hi

> Hmm. But the effect I really want is to use as much CPU as is
available,
> but leave some when needed for stuff like moving the pointer. I can
> write a non-X app that doesn't chew the _whole_ CPU when someone
else
> wants it, why can't it be the same with X?

Surely if the program is a video capture app you have a target "frames
per second" rate you want to capture the image at? If that is the case
(and it should be - capturing video "as fast as possible" will just
lead to a naff playback) you can use a gtk_timeout to invoke the
capturing function so many times a second.

In my experience, the BT848 (the most common Brooktree in use) rarely
captures at more than 30fps and even then only at tiny resolutions
(could be hard disk related through).

You might like to take a look at the source for XawTV which captures
avi's from bttv cards


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