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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.

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.

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

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.