--- On Fri, 11/7/08, Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: How much bandwidth is in use? > To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > Date: Friday, November 7, 2008, 7:36 AM > At 7:21 PM -0800 11/6/2008, Jonas Lopez wrote:
> I have just found a webcam with a good, big, analogue clock face > with a second hand. Most of the time, you can see it > hit on each of the 5 seconds in line, but some times it skips 2 or so > in a 5 second block. I wonder if this is an optical problem or are we > seeing 30 frames / second or 1 frame / second ince sometimes it > misses 2 seconds? > > People don't want their open webcams to suck up all their bandwidth, > so they often set the refresh rate to be very slow. That > means watching something like a clock - unless the refresh is > under 1/2 sec, you're going to miss "ticks". Many webcams refresh only once > every 10 or 30 seconds! > > - Dan. > - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth This is my point: since I can see that the second hand HAS hit on each second, except once in a while it misses a seccond, does this tell us that they (the sender) is sending at a set rate of 1/2, or 1, or what per second. They could NOT be sending at a refresh rate of once every 10 seconds, else we would see the second hand of the clock jump to the new location and hold for the the next frame. Using a simple analogue clock in the pix is very instructive, I think. What do you think. JML --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---