On Monday 01 Aug 2016 12:16:25 Steven Toth wrote: > > That's a good question. On one extreme an application trying to allocate > > 32 50MB buffers would seem suspicious to me, but on the other hand it > > would be difficult to answer the question in a way that can be translated > > into code. > > 8k video in the ARGB 8bit 4:4:4 colorspace, would need a 126MB per frame > buffer. Hopefully not 32 of them though. There's no easy way to compute an accurate limit, but maybe we could do improve the current situation with some heuristics based on the maximum resolution a device can capture. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html