Python and webcam capture delay?

Tim Roberts timr at probo.com
Wed Jul 8 01:11:12 EDT 2009


Nobody <nobody at nowhere.com> wrote:
>
>The webcam is bound to do some encoding; most of them use USB "full speed"
>(12Mbit/sec), which isn't enough for raw 640x480x24bpp at 30fps data.

That's not true.  Most of the web cams made in the last 5 years or so run
at high speed, 480 Mbps.  Full speed only gets you 1 fps at 640x480
uncompressed, so it's really only useful for the most primitive video
conference cams.
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Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.



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