Eliezer,
you asked on Tue, 8 Jun 2004 16:40:16 +0300:
... (A customer) initially thought to use a PCI-1411 card with a standard video camera (PAL in our case) and snap pictures (2 every second {during the 30 s} transport {phase} and 4 per second during the {10 s} process).
This results in LOTS of pictures which requires LOTS of disk space and archiving to DVD (about 2 days of pictures and data per DVD). They do about 10,000 parts each month.
My question is: does anyone have a better idea?
Just a shot 'aside', but here it goes:
What about just using a web camera or even one of the cheaper digicams. I've got a Canon Powershoot A70 (bought at amazon for about 220 €). This cam can be connected by USB and can act as a better web cam. It also can take pictures in a lot of resolutions and compresuon factors. Have not yet checked an application like yours. But when one can programmatically take shoots you'd get a set of a few (100 in your case) jpgs. Limiting the resolution and using an optimal compression ratio you's get less (much?) than 100kB/jpg, summarizing to well below 10MB/part.
This cam also takes MPG videos at halfe VGA resolution, that provide an impressive compression ratio. From what I have experimented I'd assume you could get a video file size below of 2 MB for 15fps over your 40 secs process period.
Such a cam would save a lot of extra equipment. As I said just a shot into the blue..
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