You may be right about economies of scale, but would you trust a WinTV card for a real-time machine vision application? (and I stress the words 'real time') -- Georgios Kapetanakis Department of Computer Science University of York ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Peach" <martinrp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 8:08 PM Subject: Re: Frame grabbers with bt8x8 chipset > Georgios Kapetanakis wrote: > > > > I don't want a TV/Tuner card.. thingy, because I want video only. No sound, > > no frills. Just video. Fewer things can go wrong this way ;) Also, frame > > grabbers typically support bus-mastering, which is good for real-time > > capturing, i.e. more predictable and more reliable. I might be wrong, but > > that's my requirements. > > I'm just saying that economies of scale mean that tv cards cost less > than video-only cards and otherwise work the same. I think a WInTV costs > aboout 1/10th of a Meteor and I can't tell the difference. The unused > parts effectively go to sleep if you don't use them. > > /\/\/\/*=Martin > > > > _______________________________________________ > Video4linux-list mailing list > Video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list
