shepherd@cs.dal.ca (Mike Shepherd) (04/13/91)
A short time ago, I requested information for grabbing video clips. The following is a copy of my original request and three of the responses that I received. I hope the information is useful to others as well. Thanks again. ***************************************************************** > > I would greatly appreciate information regarding equipment to >capture and playback video clips. We would like to operate at about >30 frames per second. > > We are running a Sun 4/490 fileserver with Sparcstation 1's with >colour monitors and with SUN IPC colour workstations ethernetted together. >We are using XView to build the user interface. > > Thanks very much. > >mike shepherd: shepherd@cs.dal.ca ***************************************************************** Your options for 30fps video are RasterOps PIP 2-slot s-bus card. Currently runs under SunView, not sure of the OW status. Cost is about $7K. It will work with both PAL and NTSC. For your 4/490 there is the Parallax VideoView board, its a 9U VME card, cost is again about $7K. Runs under SunView and I have seen it demonstrated running under OW. NTSC video only. The catalyst book should contain details of these products. If you just want to grab stills and are happy with under 10fps video there is the VideoPix card from Sun. Its a single slot s-bus card, cost is list $895. ****************************************************************** We are currently looking at "Videophile" from Paradise Softare (support@paradise.com). The latest versions supports Sun's new VideoPix board for SparcStations. It claims to do playback at 30 frames/sec, although capture and compression is much slower. ******************************************************************* Contact your local sun sales office and ask about our VideoPix image capture board for the SPARCstation 1, 1+, 2, or IPC. It's $895.00. For Live motion boards, there is also the Parallax VideoView board for VME bus ($8K) , The Rastops SPARC TC w/PIP (S-bus) ($8K), RGB spectrum ($7.5K), and New Media Graphics. Hope this helps...