Re: PCI video capture

[Chris Hunter <cjhunter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Having checked ... they (the IVC cards) are all PCI single or PCI V2.1
(whatever the differnce is) ... and Windows 2000 / XP ... most
four-channel, of various rates etc, and one sixteen-channel

Chris



Chris Hunter wrote:

> I thought I saw a reference to an IVC card that was PCIe ... via a
link
> at the Wordsworth 'site ... but maybe not ... I'll have to go back
&
> look ...
>
> I guess my question hinges on the drivers ... so far as I've found the
> 'Mac seems to deal only with one camera at a time ... but that doesn't
> sound right to me, which was why I rose the question ...
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> Jim Noble wrote:
>
> > Chris Hunter wrote:
> >
> > >For a while now, AppleMac have PCI express slots ... so,
'just wondered
> > >if anyone was using them for video capture ... eg: as an
alternatuve to
> > >Geovision / PC ... ???
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Not quite sure I follow your line of thought there.
> >
> > Are there any PCI Express capture cards widely available yet?
> >
> > [Power]Macs previously had PCI slots, so nothing to stop them
being used
> > as an alternative to PCs for video capture, assuming some of the
PCI
> > framegrabbers have drivers available (same assumption for PCIe of
> > course...)
> >
> > Jim