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To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
Cc: pusateri@juniper.net (Tom Pusateri), freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: NogaTech PCMCIA video cards 
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In message <199809111808.UAA20230@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> you write:
>> Has anyone taken a look at these PCMCIA video cards?
>> I'm looking for a way to run VIC on a laptop and source multicast video.
>
>not the same thing but have you considered a parallel port camera
>(e.g. quickcam) instead ? For as bad as it can be, I am not really
>sure that the PCMCIA bus has the necessary bandwidth to support
>uncompressed video, so you either end up with low res/frame rate,
>or with an already compressed stream and your chances to be able
>to decode it severely decrease.

That's too bad.
I would have figured that 32 bit PC Cards could handle full motion video.

Thanks,
Tom

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