Ronald Bultje <rbultje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Now this is driving me crazy, you're number I-don't-know-how-much that's > asking this. Really, cheap TV cards cost EUR50 or so, even less > second-hand. Developping applications and driver that can switch channel > on card at such a rate while maintaining quality takes days, weeks, and > at EUR50/hour (even cheap programmers cost money), that'd mean that > developping these applications is a *lot* more expensive than just > buying a second TV card for your second cam, or even 4 cards, or 10, or > 100. > > Why are people doing this? There are a number of valid reasons you might want to do that. No more free PCI slots for example (there are cards with 4 bt878 chips behind a PCI-PCI bridge through ...). Or if you don't build just a small number of these thingies, but alot of them (i.e. adding a second video device isn't just one card but thousands pieces of hardware ...). Gerd -- sigfault
