Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1995 10:22:01 -0600 From: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.nodak.edu> To: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, hasty@star-gate.com Subject: Re: Video stuff... Message-ID: <199503241622.AA11002@plains.NoDak.edu>
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> > Walking around Fry's in Palo Alto, Ca., saw a cool demostration of Jazz > Jakarta put out by Jazz Multimedia located in Santa Clara, Ca. (408) ??? > It has an mpeg option and the ability to display an NTSC signal on your > VGA or just put out an NTSC siginal. The video output on the VGA looks almost > as good as the display on the TV. Going to try to contact them tomorrow to see > if they are Net friendly. see the april edition of the "Computer Shopper" for reviews of MPEG players. the Jazz was in there with several others. I can't remember what CS though of the Jazz. be carefull what you buy. there are a lot of tricks that are played to keep up with the video stream, suchas memory mapping directly into the video space (which is fine for DOS), some limit the image size to cut down on pixels, some use only 8 bit color (buy 24 bit if you want to keep the card for a while also the 8 bit colormaps have to be dynamically built for the image if your card does not do this automagically, more work for the driver -- FreeBSD has a Cortex driver that is greyscale because that is how the colormap was loaded), the new trend in MPEG I cards is the DOS/Windows AVI standand that moves some of the work into the accellerated video card. We at NDSU have some money earmarked for a video capture card for conferencing. I would like a PCI based card that has 24 bit MPEG I support. I am afraid the there will be a problem in prying the information out of the manufactures to drive a publically available driver. video is the place to be. --mark.
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