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

Bill Davidsen
2005-02-23T23:28:43Z

Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> Motherboard is a biostar with nforce2 chipset, 2800xp cpu, gig of ram.
>
> I've recently made the observation that while I can view 30fps video
> from my firewire equipt movie camera with a minimal cpu hit of 2-3%,
> but viewing the video from a webcam on a usb 1.1 circuit takes 30-40%
> of the cpu, at half the frame rate.

You have gotten most of an answer, unless someone make a fireware to
USB2 adaptor you are going to have to go slow or run firewire.

I would think the framerate could be quite slow and still be useful.
What software do you use to do the detection (curiousity only)? Of
course after you detect motion you probably want to up the framerate, so
you can see what's really happening.

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