Re: How many Webcams can be captured simultaneously?

6 bits, 7 bits, what's one bit between friends?  :p
On Apr 13, 2010, at 11:59 AM, Owen Imholte wrote:

> I believe it is 127 devices per controller, including hubs (7-bit address with one reserved address). Investigate the star topology in the USB 2 spec, which will make getting this many devices on one network a little difficult, but you might have more than one USB controller in the computer.
> 
> I think bandwidth is divided among devices, so your capture rate for this many 10MP cameras may be slow?
> 

Yes, it is, but I think he was saying that it's 10 MP total, not per camera. There will be a fair amount of overhead just from bus mastering at that number of devices though. 

-Daniel