Thanks for the info. However, ADVC-100 that I use is a firewire A/V device so the default behavior is 30fps at 720x480 (NTSC) with the only bottleneck being the quality of the camcorder (which in this case is still better than a webcam). But all this is moot as Gem worked just fine a month ago when I was working on Hoary
5.04 and now on 6.10 it doesn't (either the extended nightly builds or my own build). And this worries me since my project depends upon transportability/transparency which is currently sorely missing in this setup...<br>
<br>Best wishes,<br><br>Ico<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/28/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mathieu Bouchard</b> <<a href="mailto:matju@artengine.ca">matju@artengine.ca</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:<br><br>> Thanks for the advice but I am hoping to avoid webcam due to inherent<br>> quality/fps decrease.<br><br>USB2 is 40 times faster than USB1: at 400 mbps, in 720x576, full color 24
<br>bits per pixel, cameras could do 40 fps... but typically they don't, they<br>use half the data rate (decimation of chroma columns, as in most broadcast<br>video) and have a cap at 30 fps because anyway the motion is already
<br>blurry enough at 30 fps.<br><br>You may also need a special program to unlock the framerate of the camera.<br>For Philips cameras (most of the modern Logitech/Labtec) the setpwc<br>program will allow you to get away from the default framerate of 10 fps.
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