RE: Whats the best way of doing this!

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RE: schematics

   Not at the moment, its closed-source as such (got a lot of properity parts on the board for switching inputs, camera failure ai etc...) - ill have a word with my hardware guy later for you and see if I can get some stuff off him for you!

Thanks,
Kind Regards,


Matt Brocklehurst,
LookCCTV.

Tel: 01253 891222
Fax: 01253 891221
Web: www.lookcctv.com
Email: matt@xxxxxxxxxxxx



-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Ayers [mailto:rayers.list@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 28 August 2003 13:11
To: video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Whats the best way of doing this!


You mean you built your own card?  Could you post some schematics somewhere?

Ryan


> -----Original Message-----
> From: video4linux-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:video4linux-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Matt 
> Brocklehurst
> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 6:53 AM
> To: video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Whats the best way of doing this!
>
>
> Atm grandtec multi-capture card, but as we speak my hardware gurus 
> just built me a shiny pci card (yay!) - the 878 chips are only like 6 
> dollars a piece apparently so I can get a 16 camera capture card for 
> sub 50 dollars!
>
> Thanks,
> Kind Regards,
>
>
> Matt Brocklehurst,
> LookCCTV.
>
> Tel: 01253 891222
> Fax: 01253 891221
> Web: www.lookcctv.com
> Email: matt@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Oberholtzer [mailto:roger@xxxxxx]
> Sent: 28 August 2003 12:51
> To: video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Whats the best way of doing this!
>
>
> Which card are you using for this? I have just such a need. I do not 
> need to keep the images, nor do I need a high rate. But, I would love 
> to get four images from one card! With, it seems, 4 connectors.
>
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 09:29:54 +0100
> "Matt Brocklehurst" <Matt.Brocklehurst@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >   Ive managed to finally get my V4l program to get a semi-good
> frame rate
> >   (4fps) over 4 cameras on a single chipped bt878 card - displaying this
> >   to screen no problem - however im at a loss how im going to dump the
> >   camera images to disk! Anyway ive tried the fps drops off to something
> >   icky (like 1fps). Any ideas/suggestions - source code would
> be nice! Not
> >   too bothered about the format - as long as i can convert it at a later
> >   date to jpeg no problems, just want the fastest way of dumping the 
> > data.
> >
> > (Was thinking about threads - did attempt this but didnt seem to get 
> > anywhere :( )
>
>
> Threads are not necessarily faster. Depends on what you are up to. I 
> do jpeg compression in one application and that helps alot. However, 
> that is using a firewire digital camera providing YUV images. Still, 
> the application stupidly converts these to RGB before passing it to 
> the JPEG library, which I think converts them back (correction is on 
> todo list). And the system keeps up while doing a ton of other things. 
> We cheat and do not re-calculate the Huffman tables for each image. 
> That also helps decrease conversion time.
>
> What type of hard disk are you using? We use good SCSI disks for these 
> types of things. The performance improvement is noticeable. If you are 
> using IDE disks, the CPU conversion to JPEG may actually offset the 
> decreased data to be written.
>
>
>
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