From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun Apr 19 21:56:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA21397 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 21:56:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA21294 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 04:56:02 GMT (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id FAA13655; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 05:17:07 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199804200317.FAA13655@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: High bandwidth use w/ VIC and BT848? To: ganzer@spawar.navy.mil (Mark T. Ganzer) Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 05:17:07 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <353AC853.E1A3751C@spawar.navy.mil> from "Mark T. Ganzer" at Apr 20, 98 04:00:00 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > my office. I had them both running side-by-side for a week or for test > purposes, and found out that for a given frame rate, the FreeBSD/BT848 > combo is using double the bandwidth of the SGI Indy. I also confirmed > this by testing the FreeBSD/BT848 system against a Sun > Ultra1-170/SunVideo combo. It seems like VIC on the FeeeBSD is not for an accurate test you should feed the same signal (=camera) to both grabber inputs. > compressing the video stream as efficiently as the SGI or the Sun, and > was wondering what the cause could be? In my case (PAL) there were the following problems: * vic not using single-field capture (due to some strange interaction with automatic format detection). interlace might cause very noisy input. This could be #1 candidate. * i need(ed) to stop and restart capture to have a decent image, or at the first start i got only half of the video lines * the FPS command might have some bad influence on the capture. If you want to try it, in my vic patches (http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/FreeBSD.html) there is an additional "Threshold" slider to control the threshold above which a block is considered "changed". this way you can get rid of noise for static images (if that is the problem). and finally, remember that the grabber is free running while vic is doing compression, for moving images this might have bad interactions with what vic reads. also what are the conditions of test ? how about lighting, etc ? cheers luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message