Re: Python and webcam capture delay?

2009-07-08 Thread Nobody
On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:11:12 -0700, Tim Roberts wrote: >>The webcam is bound to do some encoding; most of them use USB "full speed" >>(12Mbit/sec), which isn't enough for raw 640x480x24...@30fps data. > > That's not true. Most of the web cams made in the last 5 years or so run > at high speed, 4

Re: Python and webcam capture delay?

2009-07-08 Thread Nobody
On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:49:22 -0700, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:37:43 +0100, Nobody > declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > >> AFAIK, the only real difference between "USB-1 conformant" and "USB-2 >> conformant" is that the latter actually passed a test of

Re: Python and webcam capture delay?

2009-07-07 Thread Tim Roberts
Nobody wrote: > >The webcam is bound to do some encoding; most of them use USB "full speed" >(12Mbit/sec), which isn't enough for raw 640x480x24...@30fps data. That's not true. Most of the web cams made in the last 5 years or so run at high speed, 480 Mbps. Full speed only gets you 1 fps at 640

Re: Python and webcam capture delay?

2009-07-07 Thread Nobody
On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:01:39 +0300, jack catcher (nick) wrote: > Thanks for the comments. Unfortunately, such specifications aren't easy > to find, even in reviews. Fortunately several newer webcams seem at > least to use usb2. Supporting USB-2 doesn't mean that the camera necessarily uses high

Re: Python and webcam capture delay?

2009-07-06 Thread jack catcher (nick)
Nobody kirjoitti: On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:41:03 +0300, jack catcher (nick) wrote: Does the webcam just deliver frames, or are you getting frames out of a decoder layer? If it's the latter, you want to distribute the encoded video, which should be much lower bandwidth. Exactly how you do that d

Re: Python and webcam capture delay?

2009-07-06 Thread Rhodri James
On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:41:03 +0100, jack catcher (nick) wrote: Rhodri James kirjoitti: Does the webcam just deliver frames, or are you getting frames out of a decoder layer? If it's the latter, you want to distribute the encoded video, which should be much lower bandwidth. Exactly how you

Re: Python and webcam capture delay?

2009-07-06 Thread Nobody
On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:41:03 +0300, jack catcher (nick) wrote: >> Does the webcam just deliver frames, or are you getting frames out of >> a decoder layer? If it's the latter, you want to distribute the encoded >> video, which should be much lower bandwidth. Exactly how you do that >> depends a

Re: Python and webcam capture delay?

2009-07-06 Thread jack catcher (nick)
Rhodri James kirjoitti: On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:10:38 +0100, jack catcher (nick) wrote: Tim Roberts kirjoitti: "jack catcher (nick)" wrote: I'm thinking of using Python for capturing and showing live webcam stream simultaneously between two computers via local area network. Operating syste

Re: Python and webcam capture delay?

2009-07-06 Thread Rhodri James
On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:10:38 +0100, jack catcher (nick) wrote: Tim Roberts kirjoitti: "jack catcher (nick)" wrote: I'm thinking of using Python for capturing and showing live webcam stream simultaneously between two computers via local area network. Operating system is Windows. I'm goin

Re: Python and webcam capture delay?

2009-07-06 Thread Stef Mientki
jack catcher (nick) wrote: Hi, I'm thinking of using Python for capturing and showing live webcam stream simultaneously between two computers via local area network. Operating system is Windows. I'm going to begin with VideoCapture extension, no ideas about other implementation yet. Do you ha

Re: Python and webcam capture delay?

2009-07-05 Thread jack catcher (nick)
Tim Roberts kirjoitti: "jack catcher (nick)" wrote: I'm thinking of using Python for capturing and showing live webcam stream simultaneously between two computers via local area network. Operating system is Windows. I'm going to begin with VideoCapture extension, no ideas about other implemen

Re: Python and webcam capture delay?

2009-07-05 Thread Tim Roberts
"jack catcher (nick)" wrote: > >I'm thinking of using Python for capturing and showing live webcam >stream simultaneously between two computers via local area network. >Operating system is Windows. I'm going to begin with VideoCapture >extension, no ideas about other implementation yet. Do you

Python and webcam capture delay?

2009-07-05 Thread jack catcher (nick)
Hi, I'm thinking of using Python for capturing and showing live webcam stream simultaneously between two computers via local area network. Operating system is Windows. I'm going to begin with VideoCapture extension, no ideas about other implementation yet. Do you have any suggestions on how s

Re: python and webcam

2006-02-12 Thread dfaber
Hi again, I've tried a the Sane interface from PIL and I get the following error, when I run the demo_pil.py from the Sane directory. SANE version: (16777231, 1, 0, 15) Available devices= [('v4l:/dev/video0', 'Noname', 'Logitech QuickCam

Re: python and webcam

2006-02-12 Thread Terry Reedy
"dfaber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi, > I have Logitech webcam and I need to grab images on Fedora Core 4 (not > my favorite distro). Are there any python modules available for doing > this? Any hints or suggestions would be welcome. If is one of their ball c

Re: python and webcam

2006-02-12 Thread dfaber
Thank you for your help. I will look around for v4l modules too. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python and webcam

2006-02-12 Thread Fredrik Lundh
"dfaber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is a Win32 Python Extension. I am looking for something that work > on Linux. here's one: http://antonym.org/libfg (for more alternatives, google for "python webcam linux" or some variation thereof) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/p

Re: python and webcam

2006-02-12 Thread dfaber
It is a Win32 Python Extension. I am looking for something that work on Linux. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python and webcam

2006-02-12 Thread Philippe Bouige
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, dfaber wrote: > I have Logitech webcam and I need to grab images on Fedora Core 4 (not >my favorite distro). Are there any python modules available for doing >this? Any hints or suggestions would be welcome. You can try this : http://videocapture.s

python and webcam

2006-02-12 Thread dfaber
Hi, I have Logitech webcam and I need to grab images on Fedora Core 4 (not my favorite distro). Are there any python modules available for doing this? Any hints or suggestions would be welcome. Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list