[AG-TECH] Multiple USB cams with AG3/Win

[Ivan R. Judson]

The performance problem is likely the usb bus. You might have to switch usb
connectors to get a different usb root device to get the best bandwidth, but
this is great news for folks with 8 ports ;-)

--Ivan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On
> Behalf Of Thomas D. Uram
> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 1:55 PM
> To: ag-tech
> Subject: [AG-TECH] Multiple USB cams with AG3/Win
> 
> 
> The question came up today about use of multiple USB cameras with
> AG3 under Windows.  I tried it today, and it worked:
> 
> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~turam/AG/vicWith2USBCams.PNG
> 
> A Logitech Quickcam 3000 and a 4000 looking at each other (yes,
> the one stream is duplicated).
> 
> Note that the framerate on one camera only got to 10fps; I didn't
> look into that at all.
> 
> Tom