[rescue] Sun 711

[Shawn Wallbridge]

This "2048x1536 with special 3rd party frame buffers" sounds promising. Who
else makes frame buffers for Sun's?

shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Shawn Wallbridge
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 11:07 PM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: RE: [rescue] Sun 711


I don't see anything from Sun that does 2000x???? resolution, but I haven't
looked too hard. I think I will have a hard time selling it unless I can
prove it will work before we spend $6k.

I was thinking we could write our own playback interface, how hard could it
be?

No Fusion will do all the LUT stuff (from what I understand of it).

shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Joshua D Boyd
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 10:49 PM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [rescue] Sun 711


On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 09:04:35PM -0500, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
> Actually I was just talking with my boss and explaining things. I sent him
> Chris's email (thanks BTW). He asked what an E450 would cost :-)
> (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2020867497)
>
> Now to research the video options for a E450 :-) Will any Sun video card
do
> 2k resolution?

Now theres an interesting approach.  Maybe you can get Sun to cut you a deal
since they are trying to push for more of the content creation market.

Err, what are you going to use for playback on the Sun though?  A simple
OpenGL program should be all that is needed.  You can't really take the
flip approach because it tries to load everything into memory.  But, almost
any coder should be able to make such a thing work, even going from scratch.

But then, maybe Sun has a solution sitting around somewhere.

Let us know what you work out.

Oh, are you trying to simulate the way the film works with LUTs and stuff on
the playback machine?

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Joshua D. Boyd