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Re: New Camera Class

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Originally Posted by jhersh View Post
I believe you (or someone else) mentioned sending video over the UserData dashboard data mechanism last year... it is implemented as UDP transfers, and only marginally smaller packets that you get with raw datagrams. I'm not aware of any changes that would have made this stop working. Is this method no longer feasible or desirable for some reason? This method has about 47kBytes/s throughput.

-Joe
We could definitely try using the user data to send video; the obvious drawback is it leaves less room for other data. From the testing my team has done with the user data stream, the data it sends is often redundant, so the actual useful bytes/second value is lower than the potential.
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