Re: OT: Why is usb data many times the cpu hog that firewire is?

From: Oliver Neukum
Date: Mon Feb 21 2005 - 14:29:05 EST


Am Montag, 21. Februar 2005 19:25 schrieb Gene Heskett:
> Thats what I was afraid of, which makes using it for a motion detected
> burgular alarm source considerably less than practical since the
> machine must be able to do other things too.  Darn.  And its usb1.1
> even when plugged into a 2.0 capable port.

There are some cameras which can operate without compression at lowered
resolution and framerate. Maybe that is good enough. In addition,
decompression may be optimised.

Regards
Oliver
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