On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Curtis Burisch wrote: > Sorry, I was referring to my original spec which referred to 2 streams at > 1024 x 768 at 1:5 compression ratio and 50Hz over 10s = 157MBytes. What's the video source? PAL has 576 lines maximum, NTSC 480 or so. And 1024 pixels across is well above "TV" bandwidth (even DVD). > > My primary concern, however, is the possbility for two cards to co-exist; > and the availability of linux drivers. Can anyone suggest a solution? V4L and V4L2 is the usual video API. bttv is a well-developed driver for these APIs, supporting most "non-intelligent" capture cards like the Hauppage etc. See www.bytesex.org. Around also is the Kfir card - www.linuxtv.org. But I don't think its too mainstream. There are drivers for the Pinnacle DC10+ - which has hardware MJPEG compression. I have one of these too and it is very easy on your CPU, but MJPEG makes mega-large files compared to MPEG. Hope this is some help, Steve
