Video recording problem

[Patton Echols]

On 07/22/2011 09:22 AM, J wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 11:33,<p.echols at comcast.net>  wrote:
>> Greetings all:
>>
>> I am attempting to record video from a webcam on my laptop.  The laptop is an Asus "netbook" Eee PC 1005PEB with 2GB memory, running ubuntu 10.4  The webcam I am attempting to use is a logitech QuicCam Pro.
>>
>> What happens is that, when I start Cheese, the application displays smooth video on screen.  When recording, the video becomes very jerky and will hang badly.  It is as if watching a slide show with freeze frames for several seconds, short snips of motion, followed by more freeze frames.
>>
>> When searching for help with this problem, the sites I have found are discussing playback issues. By playing the webcam video on my desktop I am able to confirm that this is a recording issue on the laptop, not playback.
>>
>> If it matters, I do have playback issues, both on this laptop and my desktop when playing HD video, but the desktop at least is able to play video properly using xine.
>>
>> Does anyone have experience with recording video on this or a similar netbook?  Any thoughts on how I might troubleshoot? I have a project coming up that needs to use an external cam, not the builtin.  (Ok, I don't have it working either, but I have not done the homework to feel like a query to the list is justified.)
> My guess is that is just the result of trying to record/encode/write
> video on a system running a pretty lightweight processor. Even with
> 2GB of RAM, I have a feeling you're just overloading the processor and
> your video issues are due to that.  I had the same issues (and still
> do) on my Lenovo S10 running a slightly older Atom processor than
> yours.  I bet if you tried the same camera on a laptop with a core i3,
> i5 or i7 you'd see much different results.
>
> You also didn't mention if you were recording in HD or not.  If you
> are, try dropping the resolution down to something lower and see if
> that improves the situation.
>
> Cheers
> Jeff
>
You could be correct.  I was hoping someone had a brilliant idea!  It 
may be easier to solve the power problem and take video with my android 
phone.