Random SplitStream Thoughts...

[pokemonrdobh]

Am I blind, but maybe we're missing an alternate solution to the 
memory allocation. Could we have a default of 12.8MB and have a 
command line switch to over ride that ?

--- In ExtractStream@y..., Roger Merchberger <zmerch7@y...> wrote:
> --- Josh Harding <theamigo42@y...> wrote:
> > --- Roger Merchberger <zmerch7@y...> wrote:
> > > Boy - now doesn't that *just* *plain* *suck*. You'd think there
> > could
> > > be an environment variable that'd give installed memory & amount
> > > used, or somesuch...
> > 
> > That wouldn't really be very helpful. Say you check and find that
> > the
> > system has 16M of real RAM free. You malloc() all 16M. Then, 6
> > microseconds later, another program malloc()s 8M. Something's
> > going to swap.
> 
> Well, for the way I plan on modifying SplitStream, I'll be able to
> dynamically allocate from 128K to 12.8Meg - most folks who would 
have
> a problem with <16Meg allocation, usually use their computer for
> single tasks anyway, and if the program could somehow *know* that it
> would start hammering the swap, it would be nice if it could
> "throttle" it's memory usage... Without knowing if there's plenty of
> RAM available, it'll happily chew up swap & slow the whole process
> down slower than if it wouldn't have used more than the original
> 128K.
> 
> 'Course, it would also be nice if word processors wouldn't hog a
> coupla-hundred Megs for the stupid ^*%&^#$%@$ paperclip...
> 
> So much for the good old days... "Swap file? What's that? 64K is
> enough for me..." ;-) Guess I'll harken back to my days of youth,
> when one could tell Basic09 how much ram (in K) to use... I'm
> reworking the command line args again anyway, I'll just stick in a
> parameter for max. # of tystreams blocks to use at a time, and if 
the
> user specifies too much, sux 2 B him/her...
> 
> > I'm still a little confused as to why everyone splits a tyStream
> > into
> > separate a/v files and then merges them back. It seems to only
> > introduce sync problems. Granted, I've only done a couple shows,
> > but
> > using TyConvert (on Win32) seems to work well for me... just need
> > to
> > use PowerDVD to watch.
> 
> Because 1) there's a certain amount of audio offset inherent in the
> tystream. (On my system, usually somewhere between 50 and 150ms, but
> sometimes as much as 350ms) and SS tells you how much, and 2) most
> folks that split 'em, don't just stick 'em back together... they
> transcode them to a different format. I transcode the video to an
> SVCD to play them on my DVD player that can play SVCD's. The
> transcoding software has the ability to adjust the audio offset;
> usually my SVCD's have <15ms audio offset.
> 
> Besides, personally, I've never seen where splitting the stream
> changed the audio offset in the middle of the stream, unless the
> stream itself was broken, and no tool that I know of would fix 
that -
> short of finding where the difference in sync happened, and
> realigning the sync by hand...
> 
> (that, and personally I *hate* watching video on my PC. My office
> chair is highly uncomfortable, and I'd much rather be upstairs in my
> LaZ-boy tipping a cold one & watching in comfort.)
> That's allz I know... ;-)
> Roger "Merch" Merchberger
> 
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