From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun Oct 19 09:01:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA15439 for multimedia-outgoing; Sun, 19 Oct 1997 09:01:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia) Received: from crh.cl.msu.edu (crh.cl.msu.edu [35.8.1.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA15428 for ; Sun, 19 Oct 1997 09:01:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from henrich@localhost) by crh.cl.msu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA04470; Sun, 19 Oct 1997 12:00:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19971019120045.04903@crh.cl.msu.edu> Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 12:00:45 -0400 From: Charles Henrich To: Petri Helenius Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Matrox Rainbow Runner References: <19971018195652.18918@crh.cl.msu.edu> <199710190643.JAA06224@silver.sms.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84 In-Reply-To: <199710190643.JAA06224@silver.sms.fi>; from Petri Helenius on Sun, Oct 19, 1997 at 09:43:53AM +0300 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE X-PGP-Fingerprint: 1024/F7 FD C7 3A F5 6A 23 BF 76 C4 B8 C9 6E 41 A4 4F Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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