Hacking the Kodak Reels 8mm Film Digitizer (New Thread)

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0dan0

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Ok great I will try that.
When you change the Qp during a live capture, is it adjusting the bitrate on the fly or only when it finishes and writes the file to the SD card? (while stored in the buffer)

*BTW, I love the auto stop function! I thought it may have detected an empty scan with only white and stopped it.
What are the requirements to auto stop the scan? Does it test for white, and frame count?
On the fly, data is encoded and write to the sd card continuously.

Auto stop is looking of about 20 frames of nothing.
 

ThePhage

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Oct 30, 2024
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Ok great I will try that.
When you change the Qp during a live capture, is it adjusting the bitrate on the fly or only when it finishes and writes the file to the SD card? (while stored in the buffer)

*BTW, I love the auto stop function! I thought it may have detected an empty scan with only white and stopped it.
What are the requirements to auto stop the scan? Does it test for white, and frame count?
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