On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:48:07AM -0600, Peter V Amerl wrote:
> Thanks for this info.
>
> I plan to use the card mostly for video capture... I have a TV already
> ;-)
Indeed. I don't have a TV ;).
> The G450 eTV is not a full dual head card, but it has some strange
> dual display capabilities ie. Monitor and TV.
Honestly, I haven't looked at it that hard. I'm quite happy with my DC10+ to do
capture, but it won't work with NT or Win2k, either. A DC30 has NT/2k drivers, but
does not (*yet*) work with Linux.
> The G400 Series TV/Editing
> card used to have hardware MPEG compression (AFAIK). Did Matrox remove
> these from the G450 eTV line?
>From what I've gathered, the RainbowRunner and Marvel series used an M*J*PEG
>compression system, not an MPEG system. Again, I'm not an expert, and my memory
>isn't as good as it used to be. I'm unaware of what the eTV uses, but I'm pretty
>darn sure that it won't work with Linux.
> I could not find reference to it.
> Fast disks are a limiting factor as I only have UW SCSI HDD (40MB/s).
> At this time I am not ready to move to the 160MB/s SCSI standard, or
> a Firewire HDD.
You only need about 25MB/s or so to get video capture, depending on how large and fast
your framerate is. You can get much, much lower if you have a card with MJPEG
compression in hardware. If NT/2k compatibility weren't an issue, I'd heartily
recommend a Pinnacle Studio DC10+, which can be had for well under $100US at retail.
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