Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!shearson.com!newshost!wbrand From: wbrand@krishna.shearson.com (Willy Brandsdorfer) Newsgroups: comp.multimedia Subject: Re: Video Boards for Sun Workstations Message-ID: Date: 7 Jun 91 14:36:14 GMT References: <429@salt.bellcore.com> Sender: news@shearson.com (News) Reply-To: wbrand@krishna.shearson.com Organization: Lehman Brothers Lines: 22 In-Reply-To: lowery@thumper.bellcore.com's message of 5 Jun 91 22:50:04 GMT In article <429@salt.bellcore.com> lowery@thumper.bellcore.com (Carlyn M. Lowery) writes: > I am interested in doing real-time video display, image capture, and of > course, ultimately real-time video compression and decompression on Sun > workstations under X11 (MIT's version). If you have experience with > add-on cards for Suns, such as Parallax, Videopix, or RasterOps, I'd > like to hear your thoughts on usability and functionality. I'm also > particularly interested in the programming interfaces. The current RasterOps board works only under sunview and not under X. There is proported to be beta version however. I believe Videopix is little more than a digitizer. Although I haven't seen anything from parallax recently, their stuff has traditionally blown me away (reads excellent), and it cost the most ~7,000. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ William Brandsdorfer | UUCP: !uunet!shearson.com!wbrand Lehman Brothers | ARPA: wbrand@shearson.com 388 Greenwich St. | Voice: (212) 464-3835 New York, N.Y. 10013 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------