vid capture cards

[Don Lewis]

I agree with Robert. The USB bus would not work well. It has a very
slow bandwith with just one video capture card. To put four on it would
create a slug if it worked at all. It is a serial communication type
buss which has to share the bandwith with all USB devices. It was primarily
designed for simple devices working one at a time and user friendly
connectivity.


Don Lewis
Senior Computer Specialist
Graduate Institute of Technology
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
voice: (501)569-8016
email: djlewis at ualr.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov]On
Behalf Of Robert Olson
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 3:54 PM
To: John A. Greenfield
Cc: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
Subject: Re: vid capture cards


I've not successfully used USB on Linux yet; there is limited bandwidth on 
the USB bus as compared to the PCI bus.

--bob

At 04:36 PM 9/8/2000 -0600, you wrote:

>What is the latest wisdom on video capture cards ?
>Has anyone tried the Hauppage WinTV-usb 621 card ?
>Is it any better than the old 401 or is it worse ?
>
>Thanks
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