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From: young@brahms.udel.edu (Phillip Young)
Newsgroups: comp.ivideodisc
Subject: Re: digital access to video on IBM
Message-ID: <16787@brahms.udel.edu>
Date: 13 Dec 90 01:01:30 GMT
References: <550@hydra.bucknell.edu>
Organization: University of Delaware
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In article <550@hydra.bucknell.edu> pinter@perseus.bucknell.edu writes:
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>Has anyone programmed on this M- board for the IBM?  My question is,
>once the signal is read in and digitized, can it only be displayed
>as it is read, or can it also be saved on disk, using some sort of
>compression scheme similar to DVI?
>
   The board is very similar to the Videologic DVA board.  An ANALOG
video input is digitized and displayed in real time.  A still frame can
be captured from the video and stored to disc - but not in real time.
Also, no compression is involved (unless you do it yourself).