From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Sep 22 01:57:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA27153 for multimedia-outgoing; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 01:57:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA27144 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 01:56:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA01325; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 01:56:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199709220856.BAA01325@rah.star-gate.com> To: Petri Helenius cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [video] My Current Plan In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 22 Sep 1997 11:17:48 +0300." <199709220817.LAA14451@silver.sms.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 01:56:40 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I think that we are talking about $400 for an mpeg 1 encoder/decoder plus access to a PCI audio dsp 8) The decoding part is not too much of a problem as demonstrated by MTV however the encoding part is still a problem to do in software. Amancio >From The Desk Of Petri Helenius : > Amancio Hasty writes: > > > > 2. Proceed forward to provide a hardware mpeg decoder/encoder solution > > Details a bit fuzzy however I am gathering the docs and have > > an Omnimedia mpeg encoder/decoder board. > > In which price range is this? The Matrox RR (M-JPEG encode, M-JPEG and > MPEG decode) sells for $149. Also Sigma Designs sells MPEG-2 decoder > for around $300... > > > > Should be interesting to serve up mpeg audio and video streams . > > The mpeg audio component should be very interesting because we will > > be able to serve quality audio streams at around 80kbs . At any rate, > > thats my warm fuzzy feeling 8) > > > RTP encapsulation is fairly straightforward. Don't fall into any > proprietary traps. > > > Pete