[Ti] miniDV Cam - video display - CPU load - buy iSight ?

[David DelMonte]

try btv from bensoftware.com.


On Feb 24, 2006, at 6:42 PM, Ondra Soukup wrote:

> Hi,
> every time I connect my miniDV camcorder and launch up a simple app  
> to display video (HackTV, VideoViewer then even iChat, iMovie -  
> whatever) the picture is choppy, like 1-4fps, CPU load about 90%  
> and raising up to 100% when large moves are made - so there is no  
> power left to encode video for iChat :/
> But when I record a movie in iMovie - no frame dropped and  
> everything is cool - 40% CPU and very high disk activity  
> (obvious :)...when I play that movie at full DV/PAL resolution --  
> It doesn't skip and everything is cool again. So why does it  
> generate so much usage when displaying video - even if I switch to  
> 160x120 in HackTV - it's 85%.... Will iSight solve my problem ?  
> They say 600MHz G3 or any G4/G5 so my 400MHz PowerBook seems to fit  
> right in with no problem :)
>
> What I want is user's experience with iSight and live video viewing/ 
> recording/videocalling on "slow" G4s.
>
>
> BTW I also used EvoCam to record movies - onscreen choppy and the  
> file - OK, but compression did't ran realtime - it ended after 3  
> seconds... QuickTime streaming had no chance.
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