Thanks for your reply, Martin, but I already have an analog PAL CCD camera (Pulnix PEC3010). And since linux support for firewire is still in its infancy, I'd better not experiment with it. -- Georgios Kapetanakis Department of Computer Science University of York ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Peach" <martinrp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 10:07 PM Subject: Re: Frame grabbers with bt8x8 chipset > Georgios Kapetanakis wrote: > > > > You may be right about economies of scale, but would you trust a WinTV card > > for a real-time machine vision application? (and I stress the words 'real > > time') > Well I've worked with the Meteor and WinTv as well as assorted USB > cameras and definitely it's the USB cams that are unreliable and slow. > The grabber cards have never given me problems. I think for real time > you just need a fast computer, since it's the image processing that hogs > the time. The grabber cards can all digitize at top speed, whereas the > USB devices are limited by the USB connection. You might also consider a > firewire camera, since the signal is digital from the start and firewire > cards are cheap (but the cameras aren't). Linux support for firewire > though is still mainly in the future I think. See > http://www.linux1394.org/ > > /\/\/\/*=Martin > > > > _______________________________________________ > Video4linux-list mailing list > Video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list
