On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 06:13:12PM -0400, Chris Gettings wrote: > Hi - > > I've got 10 wintv cards in one box (SBC & passive backplane) under kernel > 2.4.18 & v4l (1). It runs for 12, 24 or 48 hours but when they are all > capturing 320x240 the system will eventually hang with a paging error and a > memory address. I think there are too many interrupt requests or some some > PCI "collisions" happen. Is there an option I can set on the wintv card > to control the frame rate at which it grabs images? Is there a document > somewhere which details all the registers or settings possible for that > card/chip? thank you very much. Try using motion.texhnolust.cx It will grab pictures at a certain framerate (and store only pictures that have changed). As I remember with mplayer (www.mplayerhq.hu) you can set the framerate too. Matthias