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From: lacsap@media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Video record and play
Message-ID: <1991Jun21.024752.26408@news.media.mit.edu>
Date: 21 Jun 91 02:47:52 GMT
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In article <1991Jun20.222917.27494@speedy.aero.org> louis@deveel.aero.org  
(Louis McDonald) writes:
> Just want to ask some general NeXT questions. We will be getting into
> the NeXT world soon with an emphasis in video.
> 
> 1) Is the NeXTDimension the only one that can record video input?
ND *as shipped* does not support the digitizing of video onto
hard disk in real time.  This is because the JPEG compression *hardware*
is not present on the boards.  Since NeXT has *not* announced what
is happening with JPEG, any comments are rumours at this point.

> 2) Can any NeXT platform work with the video recorded in step 1?
ND can digitize one frame at a time, you can hack together an app
that will output it to whatever format you support.  Tiff is probably
the way to go, and yes tiff files are viewable on all NeXT 2.x platforms
shipped today.

pasc

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