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- From: edgar@limu.prz.tu-berlin.de (Edgar Ostrowski)
- Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
- Subject: Re: frame grabber for Sparc
- Message-ID: <4240@elwood.prz.tu-berlin.de>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 19:13:14 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.150556.25771@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov12.150556.25771@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> duda@brokaw.lcs.mit.edu (Andrzej Duda) writes:
- >We are looking for a frame grabber card for live TV input. We want to
- >digitize it in real-time without compression with the resolution from
- >320x240x16 to 160x120x16 at 10fps and store to disk. The card should
- >be for Sparc (or for PC eventually). According to my information neither
- >VideoPix, RasterOps nor Parallax can do it. Any suggestions?
- >
-
- For my experience both the Parallax XVideo and the RasterOps SparcCard TC
- can be used for your tasks. I've run a small program on our Sparc2 equipped
- with a Parallax XVideo board to see what's possible (to get good performance
- values the framebuffer was mapped into memory which allows direct read access).
-
- An image of 240x180 pixels (24 bit/pixel) can be read from the card, converted
- to 16 bit (5/5/5 RGB) and written to disk in 65-71 msec. This was measured with
- the tmp filesystem in the swap partition. With the normal filesystem one can't
- get similiar values, there's too much overhead from the flesystem (from six
- successive frames three were grabbed, converted, and written in 67-70 msec each;
- one needed 150-170 msec and the other two needed 200-240 msec). This results
- in a mean value of about 130 msec /frame. I'd call this worst case.
-
- We experienced similiar access rates for reading from the framebuffer of
- the RasterOps card. Therefore I think that the performance of both cards
- will not be significantly different. The greatest performance bottleneck for
- storing uncompressed video is be the filesystem - if you use it; you might
- try using a raw partition instead. The UNIX filesystem probably has it's
- advantages, but there is anything else but support for continuous media.
-
-
- -edgar-
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