Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Q: getting better frame rates? (or picking a better webcam?)

[Dan Egnor <egnor ofb net>]

In many cases, the advertised frame rates are only with compression on
the camera, which is often only supported in Windows, and looks kinda
crappy anyway.  (That said, 1fps is pretty awful, most cameras can do
much better than that!  Maybe there's some kind of driver bug?)

USB-2 does make a huge difference.  I encourage you to get an iBOT2, 
which is very capable of 640x480 30fps, and see if you can get it to
work, so that I can find out if my issues are a local configuration
problem or what.  :)

The "normal" camera to get seems to be some flavor of QuickCam-ish
thing using the qce-ga driver.  Seems to get reasonable frame rates, 
though the picture quality is nothing to write home about.

Dan Egnor

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 10:20:36AM -0400, Mark Swanson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have an Ezonics EZCam (USB) that is apparently rated for 30fps. However, I 
> can't get more than 1fps over a 100Mbps LAN. In fact, just displaying the 
> webcam in gnomemeeting without even connecting to anyone is limited to about 
> 1FPS. The quality settings only slightly improve the fps at great loss in 
> quality...
> 
> Since the difference between advertised and real FPS is so huge I am not sure 
> I know what to think of other webcams that advertise 30FPS. Are they talking 
> about a 5x5 pixel mode?
> 
> I'd like to get 20fps or higher with fairly good resolution across a 150Mbps 
> connection (avg machine: Athlon 2400). Any suggestions on webcams? Will USB-2 
> webcams make a difference?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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