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Do a proper calculation of free RAM to be used as V4L buffers. The code uses sysinfo to query the available RAM, however it used ancient form available is some early development 2.3.x kernels. Newer form reports the size in memory units (usually same as page size), as result the code would fallback to 2 buffers even on multi GB system. The commit does: Improve the check in configure to ensure that we do use sysinfo struct with present mem_unit. Use free ram instead of total ram (to avoid swapping). Tweak memory constants and simplify code.

MPlayer's Dump Stream Formats
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Designed by Alex & Arpi

The file starts with a variable size header:
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32-bit  Stream format fourcc (MPVS or MPAS)
        MPVS = MPlayer Video Stream
        MPAS = MPlayer Audio Stream
8-bit   Demuxer type (AVI,MOV,ASF,REAL,...)
8-bit   Flags (marks  dumped headers)
        Values: 0x1:  WAVEFORMATEX
                0x2:  Audio extra codec data
                0x4:  BITMAPINFOHEADER
                0x8:  QT's ImageDesc
                0x16: indicates 32-bit chunk size before every data chunk
16-bit  Length of headers

There's strict rule in the follow-up of the codec-headers.
Depending on flags,

Data chunks:
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32-bit  Optional 32-bit chunk size
...     Data