Distorted,disjointed images

[OpticalRyan]

I am using an AVT Stingray F201C (1394b) camera, and most of the images that I grab or snap are distorted. The images appear to be sliced and then spliced badly. I have attached an example of a snap of graph paper.

What would cause this? And more importantly, how do I fix or prevent it?

I am using C# for my application, but it also happens in MAX.

Image size and format and capture rate seems to play a role, but it happens in all cases.

Thanks!

Ryan

[BlueCheese]

Ryan,

This type of distortion generally happens with Firewire cameras when packets are lost. It could be due to various things such as a bad cable, poor quality 1394 adapter/chipset, or your system's PCI/memory bus being saturated (the common 1394 chipsets have very little onboard buffering).

Eric