Re: movie playback on Onyx2

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Mike Krus (Michael.Krus++at++der.edfgdf.fr)
Wed, 14 Apr 1999 14:58:14 +0200

Hi,

we are looking into doing that kind of thing also...

> Brian Furtaw wrote:
> > A SCSI disk controller can stream 20mBytes per second peak flow so we are
> > talking a minimum of two controllers. Better performance can be had by
> > stripping the data across several disk drives but you are still going to need
> > two disk controllers. Do you have an MSCSI card or JPEG compression hardware. A
> > cosmo compression card could get you down to one controller but it only runs on
> > Octane.
using that card, do you think it would be possible to display a 1024x768
movie full screen?

Right now, it looks like you need either expensive disks or expensive
VCR+video card...

Mike

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