[comp.sys.sgi] Frame Grabbers

benedict@chaos.utexas.edu (Thomas Benedict) (06/04/91)

Does anyone know if there's an SGI or even a 3rd party data
acquisition board?  The setup is this:  I've got a 4D/25, and a CCD
video camera.  I want to have the two be able to talk.  One
alternative is to put a video board into a PC (hooked up via
ethernet), and do it that way, but that's a drag, and would take time
to spit the stuff out over the net.  It would be nice to be able to do
it right to disk.

Thanks,

Tom Benedict
benedict@chaos.utexas.edu
Center for Nonlinear Dynamics

pfl@minerva.inesc.pt (Pedro Faria Lopes) (06/06/91)

In article <BENEDICT.91Jun4110411@chaos.utexas.edu> benedict@chaos.utexas.edu (Thomas Benedict) writes:
>... I've got a 4D/25, and a CCD
>video camera.  I want to have the two be able to talk. ...

I think the VideoFramer (SGI) does what you are looking for. It has both input
and output on different formats: D1, D2, RGB, Composite (NTSC, PAL),
Betacam and S-Video. It has also several ways of sync: internal, external,
digital or on Green. SGI specs state that all parameters are under software
control.
Pedro
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