At 12:46 �� 10/5/2002, you wrote: >Hi Norman. > >I'm using a Mac PowerBook G4 and while it's pretty nippy, I've still had >to wait 25 minutes for a 2-minute piece to render broadcast-safe colour >correction. Still at least now the MPEG encoder won't spit at it when I >encode it for authoring. > >The material's all Apple Quicktime DV - no AVIs or redigitising needed >here, though I am rapidly running out of disk space. > >You never know... maybe once the Q200 comes along I can throw away this >Apple stuff ;) Any takers for developing a QL(or derivative)-based >real-time MPEG2 encoder...??? WHEN it works, you'll get a lot of sales - >especially in the States. I know, I know - probably pushing things a bit >far, but it was only in Manchester that I was discussing alternative >applications for the Q60 with the D & D boys. Maybe this could be one.....?
Actually when the GF will be hopefully available, its onboard DSP will be able to deal with tasks like that IIRC the specs Nasta released. Realtime MPEG2 decoders/encoders exist currently and I really see no reason why a QL-based system could serve as one and yes that wouild sell nice (another good Idea would be a QL used as an mp3 decoder in a car :-) (We will need a shrinked enough QL system, probably equipped with one of these new Coldfire chips though ;-) Phoebus
