[rescue] Monitors and Sync

[Big Endian]

>There seems to be 2 standard chipsets in use for firewire.  Find out which
>chipset SGI's card uses, and there is a good chance another card with the same
>chipset will work, unless SGI has more than just firewire IO on the 
>card (which
>would mean other cards probably won't be compatible, but would still be a good
>thing here).

I belive the "winning" standard is OHCI.

>My concern about firewire performance  stems from the fact that svideo,
>composite video, and, if you buy the right module, SDI video all get piped
>the video subsystem coming and going, and is compressed/decompressed (assuming
>you are using compression) by a chip that is closely tied to the rest of the
>graphics subsystem.  So, real time effects using these types of video IO are
>fairely trivial.  I wonder if it is as easy to do real time stuff with
>firewire.  It really doesn't matter that much to me though since I 
>don't really
>see any other options.

it shouldn't be that hard to stream DV over the PCI bus to ICE.  My 
concern here would be CPU usage.  Is there a way to build a 
DV->CCIR601 converter?  that way you could use the moose cam port.

daniel
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