Aaron, >Does that mean that their A/V modules can transmit full NTSC (or even PAL) video to the CPU? If so, couldn't a fast-enough CPU compress the signal and write it to disk?< Yes. This makes a nice experiment: take a G4 upgraded PowerMac 7500-8600, digitize at 480x640 (or some other large size and set the digitizer to compress as M-JPEG (quality high = equal to DV) on the fly. If frames are dropped, reduce size until you get all the frames. I am guessing you would still need the Aurora Fuse to get large sizes even if you a have upgraded to a G4. A different solution would be if someone would port HuffYuv to the Mac. It can compress losslessly by a factor of at most three. Problems: 1. 3x reduction may still not be enough for the average user; 2. If the video is noisy compression would suffer. IMHO Apple was too ambitious when they put this super video digitizing box on the market back in 1994. The hard disks simply weren't up to it. These days they are but now everybody is into DV and getting two 73GB SCSI disks to deal with those huge files isn't really cheap either. Jan. -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and...
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