Thread: Speed of the camera
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Re: Speed of the camera
I'm managing around 3-5hz on average at 640x480. It's easier to debug at this size, but I'll probably be cutting it down to 320x240 or smaller for final work.

It's possible to request uncompressed images from the camera... It might be a thought to mess around with that if JPEG decoding becomes the limiting factor here. Although I'm not sure how much network processing is off-loaded on this guy, nor by how much it'd outweigh decoding delay. Uncompressed 900KB vs. 40-60KB compressed. There's also the fact the camera can't (so far as I know) stream BMPs, only request one at a time, so there'd be some extra delay there, although you could use a keep-alive connection...
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