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

Gene Heskett
2005-02-22T13:12:24Z

On Tuesday 22 February 2005 03:53, Barry K. Nathan wrote:

>Is your USB 1.1 controller UHCI or OHCI? If it's UHCI, perhaps you
> could try an OHCI controller (e.g. some USB PCI cards) and see if
> that makes any difference. (I remember reading something about OHCI
> being more efficient than UHCI in some cases, although I don't
> remember the details now.)

I'm already useing the OHCI version, its an nforce2 chipset.

And I think the lack of 'efficiency' is the jpg decodeing. That just
means I can't run the capture full time, only when its triggered.
Thats doable...

>-Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com>

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