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Hi. I have installed my own software that grabs video from a webcam and transmit it across the network with h264 compression.
The program works but the video is very slow, it's unusable (320x240).
Have you got some experiences on video grabbing and h264 compression with raspberry?

h264 compression is done in software by default.
If you want to use h264 hardware compressions, the software will need to be recompiled to take advantage of the GPU

You can use either OpenMAX (open standard) or Broadcom
mmal (easier , but custom) APIs .

Here an OpenMAX example :

https://github.com/raspberrypi/userland ... llo_encode

ghans

The soon-to-be released camera board may be the best solution:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2629