Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!gblock From: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia Subject: Re: CDTV Motion Video Message-ID: <13300@uwm.edu> Date: 22 Jun 91 01:53:26 GMT References: Sender: news@uwm.edu Reply-To: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu Lines: 22 Originator: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu From article , by amuser@cutmcvax.cs.curtin.edu.au (Bill Sharp-Smith AUG): > I've also seen a real live IIfx with a 24-bit video card playing live video > from a video disk in 24-bit colour. The frame rate was again, close to TV > in a window about half the screen size. I know it was not (necessarily) being > compressed/decompressed as it was coming from the video disk, but how else do > you get live video on a Mac screen ? It must have been at least digitized, > then re-displayed. You can't just do a video-overlay like > the Amiga. Don't be so sure. (I can't stand my mac, but I need it for 24bit work) > It was interesting though, that the frame rate slowed down > considerably when any kind of mirroring or colour adjustments were made > (on the fly). Also I was told that the fram rate would increase if a JPEG > (MPEG) chip was inserted. I'm sure it would. Then again, so would CDTV. :) -- Socrates: "I drank WHAT????" LMFAP: "Next time you see me, it won't be me." Wubba: "A dream is nothing more than a wish dipped in chocolate and sprinkled with a little imagination." (From my poem, "A Dream") -Wubba