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- From: larry@tweety.cs.berkeley.edu (Larry Rowe)
- Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
- Subject: Re: Digitial video hardware for Sun?
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 16:51:26 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley EECS Dept.
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- Keywords: digital video Sun
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- In article <1993Jan13.003258.8518@cc.gatech.edu>, dada@cc.gatech.edu (Michael Pearce) writes:
- |> Is there any commercial hardware for capture and display of MPEG (or
- |> other digital video standards) on Sun workstations? ...
-
- I am unaware of any MPEG hardware boards for the Sun. We have the Parallax
- XVIDEO board with a C^3 CL550 chip (JPEG) that we've been working with
- for over a year. The board is expensive (approx. $7.5K), but it works ok.
- There is another board form another vendor that appears to be about the
- same in performance and cost.
-
- I'm the leader of the group that wrote the Berkeley MPEG software. I'm
- anxious to try it on the CL550 using the chip to decode the I-frames,
- and doing the other frames in software. My sense is that this should
- work very well.
-
- We don't yet have public domain MPEG encoder software. There are some
- commercial software packages coming (e.g., from North Valley Research
- contact toddb@nvr.com and mertan@netcom.com), and you can buy both
- mpeg sequences and coder/decoder from C^3 but it is hard to get them
- to talk to you. I have also been told that several other systems exists
- but they have not been distributed yet.
-
- So, the bottom line is that some pieces are available, they are expensive
- if commercial, and more are coming.
- Larry
-