How to solve delay when capturing desktop?

[navedjobs]

I m sucessfully able to capture desktop using ffmpeg and "screen capture recorder" full command is as follows

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ffmpeg -f dshow -i video="screen-capture-recorder" -r 55 -s 520x400
 capture.flv

and for playing

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ffplay capture.flv

but with frame rate 55 i m getting delay of almost 7-10 seconds. Delay in-the-sence the ffplay displays the captured stuff about 7-10 seconds late . do you guys have any work around's to solve this ?

[ramiro]

ffmpeg and ffplay will buffer up data to try and find out what kind of stream it's dealing with. it gives up after a while and that's when the stream really starts. I had sent a patch some long time ago to the ffmpeg-devel mailinglist regarding that but it seems it never got applied (?). rogerdpack has more info on this =)

[rogerdpack]

so you are trying to play that file *as it is recorded*?
-r

[navedjobs]

so you are trying to play that file *as it is recorded*?
-r

Thanks but i have solved most of my problem now my real problem is filter screen capture recorder which takes 100% cpu usage all time it is in execution , My cpu configuration is AMD anthlon 2.8 ghz 2gb ram 32 bit windows home edition
does the cpu usage is because of my low configuration ? or is something else ?
please help

[rogerdpack]

So the problem is that you can't afford 100% cpu?

I have compiled my notes about streaming to this page:

http://ffmpeg.org/trac/ffmpeg/wiki/StreamingGuide

There may be some options that are useful to you in there, like

-tune zerolatency

[navedjobs]

So the problem is that you can't afford 100% cpu?

I have compiled my notes about streaming to this page:

http://ffmpeg.org/trac/ffmpeg/wiki/StreamingGuide

There may be some options that are useful to you in there, like

-tune zerolatency

hi rogerd and thanks for the help , but this command also is taking 100% cpu usage plus
" ffplay " is not able to play what he is getting over the UDP port

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ffmpeg -f dshow -i video="screen-capture-recorder" -vcodec libx264 -tune zerolatency -b 900k -f mpegts udp://myip:1234

I receive this error by ffmpeg and streaming is aborted

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Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
[dshow @ 01CE8BA0] real-time buffer 170% full! frame dropped!
    Last message repeated 291 times
[mpegts @ 02F4AA20] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream
0: 1 >= 1
av_interleaved_write_frame(): Invalid argument
[dshow @ 01CE8BA0] real-time buffer 170% full! frame dropped!
    Last message repeated 1 times

whereas ffplay shows this error

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[mpegts @ 030fbb00] Unable to seek back to the start

[rogerdpack]

So you're streaming it to udp then using ffplay to receive it?
What's your full command line and uncut console outputs for both?
(current hunch: not enough cpu to do what you're wanting/trying to do...)