Scott Fitzgerald

Has anyone ever used a high resolution webcam (Greater than 640*480).

Specifically I'm looking at the DFK 31AF03 from the Imaging Source (1024*768).

Would this be too much for a mac mini to handle (particularly when

Any reports on using anything of this nature, particularly regarding

performance, would be greatly appreciated.

Would this be too much for a mac mini to handle (particularly when
compositing with an even larger matrix)?

Any reports on using anything of this nature, particularly regarding
performance, would be greatly appreciated.

high-resolution-webcameras

http://www.theimagingsource.com/en/products/cameras/firewire_color/dfk31af03/overview/

on a macmini PPC 1.4Ghz for a long duration (> 1 year) time-lapse 

movie project (so i grab one picture every 30 seconds...);

when i received this camera, i did some quick test and it seems to 

grab at 15fps or even 30fps, but i don't think you could do any heavy 

compositing with 1024x768 matrix on such a machine (maybe on a 

macmini intel this would be better); the camera is not the problem, 

>Has anyone ever used a high resolution webcam (Greater than 640*480).

>Specifically I'm looking at the DFK 31AF03 from the Imaging Source (1024*768).

>Would this be too much for a mac mini to handle (particularly when

>compositing with an even larger matrix)?

>Any reports on using anything of this nature, particularly regarding

>performance, would be greatly appreciated.

i use a DFK 31AF03 ( 
http://www.theimagingsource.com/en/products/cameras/firewire_color/dfk31af03/overview/ 
)
on a macmini PPC 1.4Ghz for a  long duration (> 1 year) time-lapse 
movie project (so i grab one picture every 30 seconds...);

when i received this camera, i did some quick test and it seems to 
grab at 15fps or even 30fps, but i don't think you could do any heavy 
compositing with 1024x768 matrix on such a machine (maybe on a 
macmini intel this would be better); the camera is not the problem, 
the cpu is the problem.

>Hi all.
>
>Has anyone ever used a high resolution webcam (Greater than 640*480).
>
>Specifically I'm looking at the DFK 31AF03 from the Imaging Source (1024*768).
>
>Would this be too much for a mac mini to handle (particularly when
>compositing with an even larger matrix)?
>
>Any reports on using anything of this nature, particularly regarding
>performance, would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks.
>
>~scott

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Thanks for confirming my suspicions Yves.

> on a macmini PPC 1.4Ghz for a long duration (> 1 year) time-lapse

> movie project (so i grab one picture every 30 seconds...);

> when i received this camera, i did some quick test and it seems to

> grab at 15fps or even 30fps, but i don't think you could do any heavy

> compositing with 1024x768 matrix on such a machine (maybe on a

> macmini intel this would be better); the camera is not the problem,

~s
On 3/13/07, Yves Bernard  wrote:
> Hi Scott,
>
> i use a DFK 31AF03 (
> http://www.theimagingsource.com/en/products/cameras/firewire_color/dfk31af03/overview/
> )
> on a macmini PPC 1.4Ghz for a  long duration (> 1 year) time-lapse
> movie project (so i grab one picture every 30 seconds...);
>
> when i received this camera, i did some quick test and it seems to
> grab at 15fps or even 30fps, but i don't think you could do any heavy
> compositing with 1024x768 matrix on such a machine (maybe on a
> macmini intel this would be better); the camera is not the problem,
> the cpu is the problem.


High resolution webcameras