Re: Re: [OT] Video Input Output Cards

["Shaf Ali" <shaf@xxxxxxxx>]

The hollywood card is sitting on my desk - note sure what to do with
it.....

Anyway we need good reviews like this for example :

http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/radeon/9600-vivo.html

I'm gonna poke round some more before I buy.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 9:49 AM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: [OT] Video Input Output Cards


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> > There is also the xcard, which is the same but mpeg-4 support.
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> > It does decent playback so long as people havent done stupid
> > things when encoding to divx like change the frame rate or
> > deinterlace it improperly if its a film source.
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> > But there is no desktop output. Just stuff you play with
> > there relitivly crappy codecs.
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> > It can optionally have scart out, I dont have that bracket as
> > component out suits me just fine.
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> There is an overlay channel that can be used to provide a framebuffer
that
> can be used as a GUI output if you are up to programming it all from
scratch
> - There's a program called JovePlayer that does just this,
unfortunately
it
> was written by a programmer with no concept of an end user and so the
UI
> looks tacky and has its roots firmly planted in "computers"
as you
navigate
> through drive letters and directory structures rather than user
friendly
> menus.
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> Phil
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