If your sensor had only 100k Pixels and you have 24Bit Colors it would be 300KB data 
per frame times 25 times 4 is 30 MB per second
considering you have one or two PCI Busses in your system the theoretical limit is 
132MB per uninterfeared bus (don't think two
busses could really double the gain cause of the CPU and memory bus contention)
Purely theoretically this says that with a 300k sensor you'd still only be at 90MB per 
sec (without overhead)

Someday you may be able to afford the advantage of compressing MPEG on a grabber and 
decompressing on the output device ...

This is my theoretical opinion - wonder if anybody has any reality based experiences 
with this ?

cheers

Tobias


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From: "hexa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 10:14
Subject: [V4L] Multiple cards grabbing


> Hi,
>
> I have four bt848 boards and would like to know if is there a program
> able to capture from these 4 devices (1 channel
> per board, 25 fps). I can do this with Xawtv but i have to run it on
> every device.
>
> Any tips are welcome =]
>
> -hexa
>
>
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