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From: hui@joplin.mpr.ca (Michael Hui)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Workstations that can record/play realtime video
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Date: 22 Nov 89 18:26:55 GMT
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Has anyone thought about executing the video expansion (de-compression?)
algorithm used in Intel's Digital Video Interactive (DVI) system?

The IEEE Spectrum article that discussed this scheme mentioned that
custom chips were developed to do the job. But could the equivalent
be done with a TMS34020 or TMS320C30 on a frame buffer card,
with the compressed video fed via the bus from a hard disk?

I notice that the Intel system is rather inflexible, in terms of
integration into the current mainstream graphics environment (X window,
TIGA from TI, etc.) but since both standards do run on the TMS340
family, it might be worth investigating whether the algorithm could be
run on those chips also, rather than use Intel's chip set.