> yes, by latency I mean the delay when u move ur hand in front of web-camera > and when it is moved on the display. > 2-3 seconds is huge considering that the cards are specifically designed to > do encoding-decoding.
The cards are specifically designed to encode video, but this has nothing to do with latency -- if you want lower latency on commodity hardware you will have more luck with cards that put out a raw or nearly raw format. You've already mentioned that the WinTV-GO; this is a bt848/878 card, which are what almost all cheap cards on the market are. If 33ms (your measurement) is not satisfactory, or you need low-latency compression (doing it in software will add several seconds), you will have to look into a specialized card; this will be expensive, but they do exist. I'm not entirely sure of the point, anyway, since latency between your server and the rest of the internet will be a significant factor -- 100ms to 2000ms, alone, not counting any buffering to keep the stream playback constant. -- Ian Trider [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Ivtv-users mailing list Ivtv-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-users
