[rescue] Sun 711

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 04:26:45PM -0700, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 16:07, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
> > Yup. x86. No choice. The software only runs under Windows.
> > 
> > Basically this is going to be a video playback machine. 2048x1556
> > uncompressed tiffs x 30fps. Steady. It CAN'T drop frames or it is useless.
> > The 'plan' so far is.....
> 
> I don't have any faith that x86 can do this.  :-(  I've not tried a lot
> with uncompressed video on x86.  However, given what I know about x86's
> capabilities, CPU power, and video decompression are a LOT more
> available than I/O bandwidth.  I know, this isn't at all what you're
> trying to do, but I think you're going to be a lot more likely to get
> what you stated above using some sort of compressed video than you are
> "streaming" tiffs a 30fps.  

I know that x86 can do it because a lot of companies are doing it on x86.
For instance, Boxx Tech claims their HDBOXX can do it.  A company, perhaps
LML claimed that they could do it in Broadcast2k, etc.

I think 5D even offers a dedicated playback system based on linux/x86.
 

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Joshua D. Boyd