Grand X-Guard+ LiveCD install + TEW-229PI works

[surubi]

I installed from the livecd on a new partition, and picked up this card on ebay. It worked first shot, although a little slow (I'm getting 5fps with 2 cameras defined, is there a way to crank this up?). I know it has only one chip but was hoping to get at least 10fps with 2 cameras. It's strange because using xawtv it appears to have a higher frame rate....

One nice tweak for me is that I also bought a cheap wireless card (trendnet TEW-228PI), and got it to work with the driver on sourceforge.net.

So now I can move this box away from my router and run zm; very cool.

[jameswilson]

i have a single chip multi input card and i think that you will only get about 12 fps when using multiple inputs. eg 3 cams 4 fps, 4 cams 3 fps. Thats all i can get out of mine.

[zoneminder]

The cheaper the card the more time you lose when switching so it's usually worse than just dividing the one input fps by the additional inputs.

Phil

[Baylink]

Indeed. And immediately you start trying to hang more than one unsynchronized camera on the same capture chip, you lose *at least* every other frame, so you only have 15fps to *split* among your cameras.

If FPS matters to you, bite the bullet and buy cards with one chip per input.