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From: Jim Lowe <james@miller.cs.uwm.edu>
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> From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
> Subject: Re: vic 2.8
> I didn't see the spigot in the device list.  I don't have a spigot but
> thought I should note it.

If you have a /dev/spigot, it will show up in the device list.

> For a performance benchmark, on small frame size & 6bits, I get about
> 3.9fps. On normal size, it drops to about 1.5fps. 

Thanks for the report Doug.  I wasn't sure if the qcam stuff was
working at all.

> PS:  Jim -- what hardware are you using on the parking lot cam?  

It is a real hack.  I hope to improve it later this year.  The current
set up is an old sparc 1 with a videopix framegrabber.  The camera is
a nck ccd telecamera (the desktop type).  I used some packing tape
and taped the cables to the camera and set it out on the 7th floor
window ledge of one of the labs.  Slamming the window seems to keep
the camera in the same position :-).

However, with winter approaching, we will have to come up with something
a little better.  Being is Wisconsin, the temperature gets a bit chilly
for electronics.  The current plan is to put the camera in a box with
a light bulb to keep it warm.  Similar to those egg incubators when
you were a younger :-).

Longer range plans include servo motors connected to a web page for
positioning; an outdoor type of camera, and mounting it on top of
the nursing building (12 floors) or the dorms (26 floors) for a
better view of the area.  We would also like to use a little better
framegrabber than the sparc 1 since that can only seem to grab about
4fps.  Even with the bandwidth limited to 10kbps we should be able to
get a higher frame rate than 4fps at times.

	-Jim