WEB Cam Server

[Rodolfo Alcázar]

On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 22:50 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
>  ...
> >4) A USB cam uses all USB bandwidth from a USB controller (dont
> >understand why). You cannot connect two USB cams to a single USB
> >controller. MUST have a card with two controllers if want to have two
> >cams.
> 
> This doesn't have to be true, at least for most cameras, and depends on the
> driver.  When I worked for Steve Sisak (Codewell, now IOXperts) writing USB
> camera drivers on MacOS, we would usually provide a way to set the
> bandwidth, and, in any case, would try to get by on what was available by
> using different alternate settings.  I don't know about drivers for Linux.

Yes. You are right. Now I remember the problem was when using that
common Genius webcams. Someone told me to install 3 usb additional cards
if I want 4 cams (one driver comes integrated with the motherboard).

Luck!

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