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In article <SUHONEN.92Dec7104750@jalka.jyu.fi> suhonen@jalka.jyu.fi (Timo Suhonen) writes:
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>Hi!
>
>I'm looking for a way to pack digitized video frames to hard disk and
>further to show those packed files on screen (several pictures in second).

>I have hardware to digitize video (a SGI 4D/310GTX with VideoLab) and I can
>digitize video frame by frame. What is the best way to pack this information
>to disk? The things we really need are:

>Time for digitizing is irrelevant (less than 3 days would be nice). Number
>of video frames to be digitized at time is something like 750 - 1000.

>First I thought about Mpeg, but then I heard, that it only supports 320 x 240
>pixels. We can't go to so low resolution ('cause we need those pictures for
>an analyse, too).

Buy a SuperMac 'Digital Film' board for a Macintosh (and get a fast CPU and
a fast disk). This board will digitize/compress in realtime to disk and play
back in real time, data is stored in JPEG format (no interframe). It's
available today, costs ~$6000 and supports NTSC or PAL full screen (no pixel or
line doubling) at full frame rates. Output is either RGB (for a 13"/17"
computer grade monitor) or NTSC/PAL, either S-video or composite. The board
also does sound, it comes bundled with the Adobe Premier 2.0 video editor.

	Paul

Disclaimer: I work for SuperMac, I'm probably biased, I don't work on the
digital video team so I may be off on some of the specs etc etc check it
out for yourself, have a dealer show you one and try it for real

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