From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri Aug 22 07:41:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA11860 for multimedia-outgoing; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 07:41:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from silver.sms.fi (silver.sms.fi [194.111.122.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA11851 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 07:41:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from pete@localhost) by silver.sms.fi (8.8.6/8.7.3) id RAA03116; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 17:41:16 +0300 (EEST) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 17:41:16 +0300 (EEST) Message-Id: <199708221441.RAA03116@silver.sms.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Petri Helenius To: Mark Tinguely Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, sales@omt.com Subject: Re: Regard to phone call about FreeBSD drivers In-Reply-To: <199708221423.JAA24122@plains.NoDak.edu> References: <199708221423.JAA24122@plains.NoDak.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.22 under 19.15p7 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mark Tinguely writes: > > Briefly, cause I am still at wor, does anyone have any cool ideas > > for next generation audio/video hardware -- desired codecs, > > telephony support, full duplex audio. etc,... > > I think with the cheaper MPEG encoding chipsets will make realtime > MPEG encoding more popular. IMHO, MPEG-1 will soon be on internet/MBONE more, > and MPEG-2 will be for more serious video on demand protocol high bandwidth > networks. > I've been playing with the Matrox Rainbow Runner for a while now and except for some bugs in the drivers I've been fairly happy with the MPEG-decode and M-JPEG encode. Pete