Re: Any ideas for slow computers?

[Oleksij Rempel <bug-track fisher-privat net>]

On 24.04.2012 18:37, Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) wrote:
> Dear developers,
> 
> I just bought an EeePC which uses the Atom CPU. It has an internal
> camera which can use cheese.
> 
> Taking photo is ok. However, recording videos is lagging and the
> recorded video is also not smooth. It is due to the CPU is slow.
> But later I found that the video-encoder is using vp8enc and set to
> speed=2. If I change it to speed=7 then things works good on this slow
> machine.
> 
> But I don't want to always have a local modified version of cheese.
> I also guess this patch is not good enough for upstream because on
> faster machines, speed=2 works fine and creates smaller files. So I'd
> like to know if there's any ideas for supporting these slow machines by
> cheese. I'm able to implement anything for my EeePC but I just need some
> good ideas.
> 
> Yours Sincerely,
> Paul

speed=3 was chosen a time vp8enc provided only max speed=3. After some
version it has max speed=7. Best solution will be to set dependency
version of gst-plugins-bad to 0.10.22.3 or more (I do not know, what
version introduced this change, so i just took current version of ubuntu
12.04). and set speed=7 by default. IMHO size do not really meter, it is
still better than mjpeg.

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Regards,
Oleksij