From: Dmitri <dmitri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: mobile robot eyes Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 18:52:54 -0700 > USB cam is most likely to be too slow. Existing compression > algorithms (implemented in camera's hardware) are too primitive > for good motion tracking - I doubt even if MPEG would be good > enough for that! > > Even worse: most compression algorithms are trade secrets, and Linux > drivers don't implement them - except Philips driver, which contains > a closed-source optional decompressor. ov511 driver (by Mark McClelland) also can decompress compressed stream. It works fine, and I got 320x240x30 fps. http://alpha.dyndns.org/ov511/ It works fine on Playstation2 Linux too :). Kentarou Fukuchi
