[rescue] Re: Interesting Sun video capture card

[Chris Powell]

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 11:24:30 -0600, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 06:27:31PM +0000, Chris Powell wrote:
> > On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 15:10:40 -0600 Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 05:34:13PM +1300, Gavin Hubbard wrote:
> > > > Hi Lads
> > > > 
> > > > I was trawling EBat and found what looks like a very interesting SBus card. Can you reall do full-motion full-resolution video capture on a SS5?
> > > > 
> > > > http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2302888094&category=
> > > 
> > > Yep.  With a little compression (as little as 3:1), a SS5 should have no
> > > trouble, and with DV compression (effectively about 10:1), it would have
> > > absolutely no problem.
> > 
> > The Sun SBus video capture card (at least the later ones) had on-board
> > compression also. My SS10 with this card will happily compress an incoming
> > TV feed with virtually no CPU interaction.
> 
> But, that board was a quarter frame board, or else you had to put of
> with a crummy frame rate.

Yup, absolutely right. I don't think the PCI version (SunVideoPlus) did
things any better....

Is the Parallax XVideo a full frame, full rate capture card?


Chris.