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Efika 5200B Project
Use of EFIKA PowerPC Boards and SUN Fire T1000 Server in a Cooperative Project for Higher Education in Vaasa-Finlandin category Other
proposed by PurpleAlien on 2nd December 2006 (accepted on 2nd December 2006)
OK, I have some exciting news :-D
I finally got the Creative Optia camera with the UVC driver to work on the EFIKA. To test maximum performance, I used uvc-stream to stream 640x480 video over my LAN to my laptop.
The quality is amazing, it's much faster than what we had with Ekiga until now (will test this camera with Ekiga later) and best of all, here is the output from top:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
16282 root 15 0 39780 10m 10m S 2.0 8.7 0:04.81 uvc_stream
A mere 2% of CPU usage!
Next week I will put this set-up in my lab and see if I can make the stream publicly accessible - you will be able to see for yourself! :-)
EDIT:
- Ekiga runs even better :-)
- Streaming 640x480 @25fps -> 2.5% to 3%CPU per connection