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by rogerdpack
Fri Aug 05, 2011 7:09 am
Forum: General
Topic: motion detection using lots of cpu
Replies: 2
Views: 9462

cpu usage

p4 2.66 Ghz (it's pretty old...) actually, now that I look a bit closer motion detection uses about 36% cpu (constantly). I also noticed that if I bounced the number of "files to save" up to save 1_000_000 It also uses cpu 100% constantly. Possible culprit this thread: "FileOutputThre...
by rogerdpack
Thu Aug 04, 2011 5:48 pm
Forum: General
Topic: motion detection using lots of cpu
Replies: 2
Views: 9462

motion detection using lots of cpu

Hello. I installed yawcam, set it to snapshot to a file 1 fps, and turned on motion detection. Then noticed that javaw was using 70% of my cpu! (I have an older box). Turning off motion detection, it uses like 2% cpu. I would have expected it to use motion detection "every second" to see i...
by rogerdpack
Mon Jun 13, 2011 8:54 pm
Forum: General
Topic: feature request: less than 1 fps saved to file
Replies: 1
Views: 10239

feature request: less than 1 fps saved to file

Hello.
I noticed that the "file saver" feature is limited to at most 1 fps.
Feature request: accept ex "0.25" for this field, so that users can store more images when desired.

Actually, I'd be happy to help is the source code available anywhere (github...)

Cheers!

-roger-
by rogerdpack
Mon Jun 13, 2011 8:53 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Video Recording
Replies: 3
Views: 16223

Actually that was the same question I had when I started yawcam. http://www.yawcam.com/help/help_main.php describes "images to movie" which may help. But my feature request would be "have an option every x minutes convert it [in another thread] to a movie file" [or an option to j...