--- Ronald Bultje <rbultje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey, > > On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 02:29, Limos Special wrote: > > Is there anyway to capture the fields to different > > buffers, using v4l1 ? > > Nope, v4l2 only. Thanks, I will dig into it > 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? > A: Video capture cards aren`t that cheap overhere, and employers aren`t that practical. Putting programmers price versus hardware price in a chart to an almost hand made security surveillance system, in a 3rd world country is not something that would work. My approach is try to do the best, and after that, show work done. The machine I am working right now has 4 bt878 cards, and I am trying to prove a point that its not possible to do more than 2 fps per channel with this setup, recording as jpeg images to disk. I`ve just asked to make sure I am nor leaving anything behind. Best regards > Ronald > > -- > Ronald Bultje <rbultje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > -- > video4linux-list mailing list > Unsubscribe > mailto:video4linux-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com
