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From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J Eric Townsend)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Animating images on PC's and Workstations
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Date: 19 Jun 91 17:38:36 GMT
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In article <1991Jun18.214123.16407@digi.lonestar.org> emartine@digi.lonestar.org (Edgar Martinez Martinez) writes:
>In the June issue of PC Sources, there is a small article (page 57) that talks
>about a new board that compresses and lets you play video at 30 frames per
>second, and all in a 386 PC with a 1 Meg video card. It compresses images
>by almost 98 percent! The board and software cost 10,000 dollars.

Ha.  My crappy little 68000 based Amiga A2000 could play back compressed
animations at around 15 fps.  I haven't really pushed my 25Mhz '030/882
based Amiga A3000 yet to find out its rate.

Of course, there're the demos at Amiga shows where people play back
3 minutes of digitized video from a film...  I think the current
favorite is from "Predator".

Ask in comp.sys.amiga.graphics.

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