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- From: harti@mikro.ee.tu-berlin.de (Stefan Hartmann (Behse))
- Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
- Subject: Re: Videospigot for Windows
- Date: 3 Jan 1993 12:15:49 GMT
- Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin
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- References: <1993Jan1.202610.13986@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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- In <1993Jan1.202610.13986@cs.tu-berlin.de> dimento@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Christian Moskal) writes:
-
- >Hello,
-
- >I have already had a chance to evaluate the 'Videospigot for Windows'
- >which comes bundled with a lot of decent pieces of software. Unfor-
- >tunately, it is not yet available here in Germany. Could someone pro-
- >vide with the necessary data of retailers throughout the states. I
- >would greatly appreciate any pointers.
-
- >Thanks much in advance.
-
- >Kindest Regards,
- >-- Chris
-
- Hi,
- here comes the technical info about the new moviegrabber(tm)
- PC-Hurricane(tm).
-
-
- It is a hicolor color YUV (4:1:1) realtime video movie digitizer which
- can store 25 frames/sec(PAL) or 30 frames/sec(NTSC) into Expanded Memory.
-
- It has support for ET4000 Hicolor and true color boards.
-
- The software is a userfriendly DOS software, which displays the
- incoming video signal in almost realtime (about 5-10 frames/sec) on a
- ET4000 Hicolor board in 32768 colors/pixel.
- This is okay for video purposes, cause the noise inside a video movie
- almost does already the dithering to a true color quality.(simualar to
- 24 bit quality)
-
- If you don't have a Hicolor card inside your PC, then there is also a
- 256 color version driver, which displays the video signal in almost
- realtime in 3-3-2 color quantisation. (still the TGA pics are saved as
- 16 bit Hicolor/pixel, so quality from the saved output is the same as
- in the Hicolor software driver)
-
- If the sequence arrives, which you wanna digitize, just hit the space
- key.
- Then it is digitized into the Expanded Memory in realtime with 25 or
- 30 frames/sec maximum rate. This can be adjusted to 12.5 or 8 or 4
- frames/sec !
-
- During this storing process, you will not see any signal on your VGA
- monitor, but if the RAM is filled with e.g.396 frames at 320x240, then
- you can already watch the digitized movie play of the Expanded Memory!
-
- It plays in slow motion the YUV coded fields to the SVGA card via the
- ISA bus. This gives a real slow motion Hicolor digital movie out of
- the RAM !
-
-
- So if you have 32 MBytes of Ram on your motherboard, you can be happy.
- Then you can store about 16 seconds of realtime MPEG resolution
- 320x240 true color video with one shot !
- With the enclosed software you can save this with one command to
- single TGA pics onto the harddisk or save it as a complete Hicolor
- movie (uncompressed, big file size).
-
- PC-Hurricane also digitizes the resolutions:
- 384x288, 360x240, 320x240 and 320x200. So max. resolution is 1 PAL
- field (384x288).
- Field digitisation is preferred, cause it gives no Interlace
- artifacts, due to motion...
-
-
- So if you want to make a FLI file out of the 16 seconds sequence, no
- problem, just start DTA17e (Dave's Targa Animator) and it produces a
- FLI animation file out of the single TGA pics..
-
-
- Also, if you have the Xing Technology software only MPEG encoder,
- it will be possible to compress this about 400 single
- TARGA(tm) pics with just one second command to a MPEG movie !
-
- So you have in about 5 minutes of work a ready to display MPEG movie !
-
-
- PC-Hurricane has NTSC/PAL switchable. So it can also digitize NTSC
- video. It has Video(FBAS) and Y/C(SVHS/Hi8) inputs.
-
-
-
- Best regards, Stefan Hartmann,c/o Gatz & Hartmann
- email to: leo@zelator.in-berlin.de
-
- Gatz & Hartmann
- Ingenieurbuero fuer Multimedia-Anwendungen
- Fehrbelliner Str. 32
- W-1000 Berlin 20
- Tel: 030-375 55 68
- FAX1:030-375 55 68
- FAX2:030-344 92 79
-
- International area code: ++49 30-
-
- P.S.: We are accepting all other trademarks (tm).
-
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