Sure, I wasn't really thinking of bktr, which as I understand is a video capture card and as such has onboard electronics for image processing. Evidently, this in combo with a normal cam is the best in terms of resolution/low cpu load.
I was aiming more for the post comparing 40$ usb webcam/100$ ip webcam and the original poster wanting simple surveillance. Ok, if you have a project where you need a 100 of the little buggers, you can probably find a decent one at an ok price and write a driver. For a one-off, the stuff that retails at 20$ in your local store is most probably a piece of crap. So IMO an ip cam and push/pull to your box makes more sense, and basically you do not want to do audio/video over the usb bus, ever. mike On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Jacob Meuser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I bet, to get the same resolution from an IP cam, I would be > using more resources. either a much higher network load (always > some network load ...), or cpu load to decompress the video. > of course, raw frames suck as far as storage/transmission is > concerned.
