Hi Theodore > As to getting that kind of resolution out of a webcam, though, it would be > a rather tough go due to the amount of data which has to pass over the > wire even if it is compressed data. The frame rate would be pretty > atrocious. Therefore, you are probably not going to see that kind > of resolution in an inexpensive webcam, at least until USB 3 comes > into common use. Thanks for offering your thoughts on this matter. It looks like I'll have to keep checking eBay for cheap USB v3 (HD) webcams periodically. For the record, I've only got Motion set to capture four frames per second at the moment. > Perhaps for now if you want that kind of resolution and do not care about > the frame rate very much, you would be better off to buy a slightly > fancier camera and do something like using gphoto2 to take timed shots. I prefer the idea of captured motion to that of timed snapshots. The captured images and videos are automatically uploaded to my Dropbox account. As I'm only a 'free' user, I must limit the storage space that these files consume. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
