----- Original Message ----- From: "Tobias Gogolin" <tobias@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > If your sensor had only 100k Pixels and you have 24Bit Colors it would be 300KB data per frame times 25 times 4 is 30 MB per second > considering you have one or two PCI Busses in your system the theoretical limit is 132MB per uninterfeared bus (don't think two > busses could really double the gain cause of the CPU and memory bus contention) > Purely theoretically this says that with a 300k sensor you'd still only be at 90MB per sec (without overhead) > > Someday you may be able to afford the advantage of compressing MPEG on a grabber and decompressing on the output device ... > > This is my theoretical opinion - wonder if anybody has any reality based experiences with this ? > > cheers > > Tobias > but if I run xawtv on every device, i can watch 1 channel of every board in fullmotion, no prob. so it is possible to do this what i'm looking for is a single program that handle all this