VIDEOVideo operations have a seperate section from audio. Like audio, video is recorded in a pipeline but unlike audio, the video device has a configurable buffer size. Frames to buffer in device determines how many frames ahead of the current capture position the device should buffer but not write to disk. Setting this to a large number and capturing below the maximum framerate of the device will cause video to be delayed. This is only available when using a Video4Linux 2 driver. Unfortunately for most purposes Video4Linux 2 has never achieved usable functionality.Frames to record to disk determines the number of frames to read from the device and compress to disk at a time. This number doesn't cause a delay.
The rendering speed can be improved by selecting one of the 4 rendering modes: fastest, alpha channels, floating point, and interpolated The quality improves and speed decreases as you go down. Alpha channels without floats is lossy. Fastest rendering is lossless and should always be used when you have no scaling or alpha channels.
The record driver selects which driver to capture video from. When Video4Linux is selected Broadcast 2000 automatically determines what variant is installed and tries to match it.