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

[Ondra Soukup]

BTV is the same, gets 100% but at least - the video is not choppy.

Will I get better result with iSight or is my TiBook just not  
powerful enough ?
Most of time, I need the cam for iChat..

On Feb 25, 2006, at 0:44 , David DelMonte wrote:

> 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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