[LAU] skipping chunks of video with ffmpeg2theora and icecast, DVinput

[Peder Hedlund]

Quoting Luka Prin?i? // Nova deViator <nova at deviator.si>:

>
> hi,
>
> i have been doing videostreaming now number of times and somehow i
> always run into the same peculiar problem.
>
> whenever there is more action on camera, especially zoomins and a lot
> of audio (like bass and distorted vocals for example), the stream starts
> to continously skip chunks of video stream of about 0.5-1 second,
> every 0.5-1 second.

The obvious guess would be that your CPU is too slow and can't keep up  
with recoding the video stream.
The other guess is that the camera and/or the interface can't push  
that amount of data in real time to the PC.