On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Stephen Crampton wrote: > > I was getting around 4 fps with a Webcam 3 until I enabled compression > through the driver. > > I'm using ioctl(VIDIOCGMBUF) and mmap to implement shared memory and then > ioctl(VIDIOCMCAPTURE) and ioctl(VIDIOCMSYNC) to read frames. I use two > frames in the following sequence: Thanks for that, I managed to get it up to 8fps last night alternating buffers but this will help a lot! Brian