>I'm wondering why you'd want a *DC10+* for such a job, where a webcam >would normally be more than enough! Just happen to have one around. The application is in Perl using Video-Capture-V4l. All I want to do is grab the frame, save to disk then transfer it via ftp to another machine. No need to view it at all. >Well, the thing is, the DC10+ does DMA capture, so it needs some free >physical memory for capture. Just bought 128MB. >Oh, and 350 MHz is enough, some people use such a card on ~ 200 MHz >machines. I'm building it on an old machine while my Wal-Mart clone is working its way through the mail. r.b.