On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Richard UNGER wrote: > To answer your actual question though, I would say most USB webcams will > give you lower quality than you are used to from 'TV', not because of > resolution, but because of colour, because the actual sensor is crappy. > Most webcams I have tried also give blurry motion. A bttv type board > should do the trick fine, as would a Matrox Meteor II. You should be able > to hook a standard handycam to those for NTSC quality grabbing. > > Another option to look into might be Digital Video over FireWire. See > linux1394.sourceforge.net - This should give you quality superior to NTSC, > but it is not clear a FireWire host adapter and Cam would cost any more > than an Analogue framegrabber + a handycam... I saw some web cams for firewire and they were offering 640x480 at 30 fps for $100 what seemed like not a bad deal, but since most mother boards does not support firewire it would mean add on card. i suppose that due to licensiing issues (royalties), we won't see firewire on PC motherboards anytime soon. But the USB 2.0 seems to be quite intersting with speeds *around* 50MB/sec. So if I could wait usb 2.0 web cam seems like a good pick but what about those handycams to connect to bttv cards. I'm not familar with them at all and they did not seem to have any of those in MicroCenter where I checked out. does anyone has to pointer to those handycams I can connect to an bttv card? -- Adam http://www.eax.com The Supreme Headquarters of the 32 bit registers
