Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!garnett From: garnett@cs.utexas.edu (John William Garnett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: NeXTdimension (was Re: Cheap color, HEY NeXT (was: GETTING A NEXT)) Keywords: C-Cube bug Message-ID: <1115@tokio.cs.utexas.edu> Date: 21 Feb 91 08:55:32 GMT References: Organization: University of Texas at Austin Lines: 32 In article ersys!drin@nro.cs.athabascau.ca (Adrian Smith) writes: >smithw@hamblin.math.byu.edu (Dr. William V. Smith) writes: > [stuff deleted here] >> The NeXTdimension is *still* scheduled for March I hear. >> Several NeXT people told me this, so take it for what its worth. >> -Bill >> -- > >However, I heard it today from our campus rep (he tends to get things >right) that NeXT has a *major* problem with the Dimension board. The >C-Cube chip (real-time video compression) has a bug, and - doesn't >work!!! They're in a quandry as to whether to: Yes, this is apparently true. I saw a public NeXTdimension demo on Feb. 15 which didn't use the C-Cube chip because of the bug you mention. They did demo JPEG compression using the 040. It took about 9 seconds to compress a medium-sized image (I don't remember the exact dimensions) instead of the ~ 1/30 second that the C-Cube chip should (will?) offer. At least part of the real-time video capabilities do work though... they had a laser disk player attached to the NeXTdimension playing a space movie in a NeXTstep window in real-time. At the same time, Molecule.app was running an animation. I didn't notice any slowdown of either window. -- John Garnett University of Texas at Austin garnett@cs.utexas.edu Department of Computer Science Austin, Texas Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com