[plug] Video Capture - USB/FireWire

[Onno Benschop]

Bernd Felsche wrote:

>Onno Benschop <onno at itmaze.com.au> writes:
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>>After realising that my current web-cam is not up to the task and
>>my digital camera unable to interact in a real-time fashion with my
>>workstation, I've come to the conclusion that I need to look
>>elsewhere.
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>In what way isn't the web cam up to the task?
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Resolution is crap, refresh is horrible, colour is completely out of 
whack and focus is a non-event.

>Have you considered network-based (IP) web/security cameras?
>Most of them run an embedded web server engine.
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I have and rejected them given their quality/price performance.

My research tells me that a cheap video camera with a capture device 
will outperform anything that is mildly affordable.


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