Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 12:00:45 -0400 From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Matrox Rainbow Runner Message-ID: <19971019120045.04903@crh.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <199710190643.JAA06224@silver.sms.fi>; from Petri Helenius on Sun, Oct 19, 1997 at 09:43:53AM %2B0300 References: <19971018195652.18918@crh.cl.msu.edu> <199710190643.JAA06224@silver.sms.fi>
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On the subject of Matrox Rainbow Runner, Petri Helenius stated: > I use this card to produce MPEG's. That is, I take the video into > MJPEG (with one of the higher rate settings, from 7 to 20 > megabits/sec) and compress it with an MPEG encoder to 600 to 2500 > kilobits/sec. Note that MJPEG is an editable format and not really > targeted for network nor distribution format. What do you use for to convert to MPEG? The software that comes with the card is horrendously slow! > > The only downside as far as I can see for this card is, it requires I run > > windows :) Has anyone else looked at this card? > > > The only real problem here is that the windows drivers leak memory > like hell. Doing a 15 minute capture renders my 64 meg machine out of > memory. Hum. I used the 1.52 driver to capture about an hour of video last night with no problems. -Crh Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich
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