"Nik" wrote in message
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G Hardy wrote:
YAATAICMFP.
OK - what's the "AT" mean? )
"A troll"

Aha. I had "a tit" so I wasn't far out.


Interesting. I'm just about to acquire an external drive for video
storage (which may or may or may not include capture), so I'm pleased to
know I don't need to spend extra for a firewire-enabled device.

It's not too much extra, and it's worth having for the extra flexibility.
Bear in mind that USB is not particularly well behaved when it comes to
multiple devices, so with certain chipsets, you might find that you lose
speed just by having (say) a USB1 modem attached to the bus. If you are able
to switch over to firewire in such an event, it means that you're not having
your available connected hardware dictated to you by other connections.


My (PAL) camera has both USB2 and 1394 connections. Before I obtained a
1394 card, I captured one scene via USB2 and it limited the resolution to
640x480. I had assumed that this was due to the speed limitation of USB2,
but you would suggest otherwise?

There's no valid reason, as others have mentioned. I have a little MPEG
capture device for analogue video that works through USB2. Trying to capture
at DVD resolution is extremely hard, even though USB speed and the PC it's
connected to are both up to the job.

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:19:07 +0000, Tony Morgan
wrote:

In a similar vein, when I get back from my holidays I'm going to get the
new Netgear SC101. A friend's just fitted one. It give wireless
connection to two IDE hard drives (of any size).

You may have actually stumbled on a connection method that IS a
bottleneck in video capture :-)

In message , Laurence Payne
writes
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:19:07 +0000, Tony Morgan
wrote:

In a similar vein, when I get back from my holidays I'm going to get the
new Netgear SC101. A friend's just fitted one. It give wireless
connection to two IDE hard drives (of any size).

You may have actually stumbled on a connection method that IS a
bottleneck in video capture :-)

You might be right, but I suspect that the 54Mbps wireless 'bottleneck'
will cope - especially since I've used a Bluetooth link from Cam to
laptop on capture (and out to HDD via USB2).

--
Tony Morgan