[Tfug] A/V drives

[Bexley Hall]

Hi, John,

--- On Wed, 12/24/08, John Gruenenfelder <johng at as.arizona.edu> wrote:

> As for Bexley's query... I'm still not sure what the target is.
> It seems to me that true RT A/V performance should really only 
> matter if you are doing broadcast.  In every other case I can
> think of it's perfectly fine for your A/V pipeline to stall.

Well, video *capture* would also have hard deadlines  :>
Note that this doesn't only apply to mundane things like
(home) "DVR's" but, also, commercial equipment to capture
and store material for later broadcast, etc.  ("Um, hello
Mr. Satellite... could you please resend those last 6 frames
of 'MWC episode 7'?"

> As long as the job gets done you shouldn't need to
> huge pain and expense of special A/V storage hardware.

Agreed.  It depends on whether you have hard or soft
deadlines (and, as with most things, soft is typically
the case)

--don