[rescue] Video encoding

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A mac sounds like the best way to go currently.  Any recommendations on
models?  The DC30 board is listed on EBay for around the 100-150 range so that
sounds like the best way to get where I want to go.

I've been a little intrigued by the new BSD derived OS on the Macs anyway so
it sounds like some good justification to the wife....

Thanks for the advice.

Seth Dunehew

-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua D Boyd [mailto:jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 3:48 PM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [rescue] Video encoding


On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 04:16:21PM -0400, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> > Just stick to an O2 or Mac for your task.
>
> Agreed.  If there's money issues, go with an A/V mac and stick in a
> couple large/fast hard drives - otherwise an O2 would be my personal
> choice (with a couple large/fast hard drives).

In theory uncompressed capture should be possible on the 840av.  In reality,
you can capture segments as large as your memory size uncompressed.  In
theory, you can stripe ATTO cards (FWDiff) to get 40MB/s.  No one has been
able to confirm if the drivers support doing this.  Further, I haven't seen
a definative answer to whether NuBus can support that much bandwidth.  I
believe it is cutting it close to theoretical limits that don't take overhead
into account. I don't want to spend that much money on something unconfirmed
at this time.  I am far less familiar with the capabilities of the build in
capture on the PCI AV macs, like my 6500.


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Joshua D. Boyd