[cpia] cpia webcam 30fps??

[Michael Renzmann]

Hi.

Justin Cormack wrote:

>>How about the VC V.Net Network cameras? The new C30U is able of 
>>capturing 30fps as MPEG1-Stream. I'm currently working on a library that 
>>gives access to the V.Net cam functions. But you should be aware that 
>>these cams are not as cheap as webcams ;)
>>If there is interest, I can establish a contact between any person and 
>>JVC Professional.
> These look quite nice actually, I might be interested (pan and tilt is very
> useful for some apps). How much are they?

> The other network camera that you could use is the axis one (www.axis.se).
> They are about $250, so quite cost effective.


The V.Net cams are a bit more expensive compared to the axis cams, but 
axis does not have tilt/pan heads, afaik. I'm very convinced of these 
cams by now.

> There are some other fun solutions if you have plenty of bandwidth, eg
> buy a dv or mpeg camera with firewire and tunnel the firewire stream over
> the network. As someone is writing a dv1394 driver that you can just cat
> into and out of to a camera, you should just be able to run a videoconference
> with netcat in a single line of shell code...


That sounds too easy, doesn't it? ;))

Bye, Mike