Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 17:05:37 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Cc: dgy@rtd.com, pete@sms.fi, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: broadcast video Message-ID: <199702140005.RAA23281@seagull.rtd.com> In-Reply-To: <199702132301.PAA16006@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty" at Feb 13, 97 03:01:27 pm
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Greetings! > MPEG-2 is also intended for NTSC, HDTV, and computers Yes, I understood that. I was just trying to decide if MPEG-*1* was perhaps a "CGA" version of MPEG-2 (i.e. lower resolution, lots of motion artifacts, etc.) and wondering if there would be *visible* differences in the image quality (for standard 525/60 NTSC video) > You can easily call up Optibase or C-Cube. Yes. Optibase seems to have lots of information on *boards* and C-Cubes server appears to be down. I'll wait till later on (i.e. the wee hours of the morning) to check again. > An mpeg decoder chip shall run you about $40 or less. Hmmm... I saw DEC had introduced a codec (i.e. encode capabilities also) for $75 in *big* volume (10K pieces). I'm still waiting to find a simple decoder chip. $40 would be *perfect*... > BTW: Is your box going to run FreeBSD? No, though I will be using my FBSD boxes here to develop the application. There just isn't enough horsepower in a 386EX to *really* run FBSD. Unfortunate as it sure would be nice to take say the first 20 prototypes and make a nice little video conferencing system out of them! :> BTW, how does all of this compare to "Indeo" -- which I gather is a software coder from Intel? Depending on licensing, I may opt to upgrade the processor to a faster beast and skip the hardware decoder, etc. But, I suspect I'd pay a premium price to go that route... --don
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