>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). Hmm well I will be using industry standard video source in my application, so I guess PAL 720 x 576. But quality is paramount (along with everything else ;-) >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. Will take a look - thanks for the nfo. >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. May not be a problem provided it meets the spec. Cheap on CPU time is good, as I said I'll need access to the stream in almost-raw (i.e. cheap to decompress) format. Is the DC10+ a high-end pro card? Again, thanks for all yr help! Curtis.
