[rescue] Video encoding

Big Endian bigendian at mac.com
Wed Apr 24 15:23:50 CDT 2002


>On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 03:56:53PM -0400, Kurt Huhn wrote:
>
>>  An Octane is nice, but it typically lacks the A/V option - Personal
>>  Video Option (PVO) is the official name.  If you find one at an
>>  affordable price with the PVO, you scored big time!  Otherwise, it can
>>  cost a couple grand just for the PVO, on top of the price for the
>>  Octane.
>
>Note, the PVO lacks compression.  I believe there is a seperate compression
>board available, but it is darn expensive, and can be done without if you
>throw enough hard drives at the problem.

I/O channels also.  The octane only has 2x UW scsi channels, which 
won't do 100MB/sec.

daniel
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