[aklug] FriLinux

Damien and I spent most of our time playing around with USB web cam & video recording.

I had played around with this from time to time. Never had an appreciation for just how much HorsePower it takes.

I had always assumed I had something set wrong or flaky drivers because I couldn't get anything going in this department. I'd Googled it in the past for requirements and all I seemed to find was the software side of things. Never anything about minimum recommended hardware to accomplish the task.

My 2.4 GHz P4-M (single core) is barely up to the task @ 320x240. I can also get audio if using my old Philips web cam. The video is not as smooth as it was on Damien's, but acceptable. Using my newer "Blue" camera w/ mike, I have to use the built in mic on the laptop. Even enabling the one from my Blue just freezes everything up. I think it's the combination of a higher rate video (than my Philips) plus audio simultaneously over the single USB port.

Damien's 2.0 GHz dual core w/ builtin USB 2 does nice 640x480, until we threw the Blue's audio into the mix. It does nice 320x240 w/ audio. I suspect that with a little tweaking we might get audio @ 640x480 as well.

Fielder was working on a HP office tower for the Mabel T Caverly Ctr. If anyone has a stick or 2 of DDR PC2100 @ 256MB or 512MB, it would probably help. Hard to get X working very well on 256MB.

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Jim Gribbin
Linux user #179129
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