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- In <Norman-050495151818@red_knight.msfc.nasa.gov>
- Norman@eisner.decus.org (Richard) writes:
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- >Thanks for playing, but... They also did Motion JPEG which is what the
- >PAR uses as well as several of the boards that they reviewed.
- >They also discussed going back to video tape in addition to multimedia.
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- >DPS is or has released utils for Win 3.1 to convert M-JPEG to .AVI
- >Not sure what you loose in the process, but as you say it pays to
- >be compatible.
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- >I also thought it might be price, but one of the boards tested was in
- >the same price range as the PAR, and all the cheapies didn't have
- >NTSC out which they mentioned in the article several times as being
- >an expensive add on.
- >
- >Leaving out the PAR seems like an oversight to me, but I could be
- wrong.
- > Richard Norman norman@eisner.decus.org
- > AMIGA --- Amazing Multitasking Interactive Graphics & Animation
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- I didn't know about that PAR to AVI converter. If it exists that would
- be great!
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- Yes, they did mention some motion JPEG boards, but they didn't need a
- dedicated drive in the same way that the PAR does. I still think (and I
- could of course be wrong) that the idea of the article was not really
- what the PAR is all about. I don't have the article here and I don't
- remember, but didn't the other motion JPEG boards have some kind of
- software-only playback capabilities? If the PAR has that converter you
- spoke of then yes, it should have been included since AVI is a standard
- distribution format, as are the others in the article. If there is no
- converter, then I stand by my statement that the PAR is a different
- ballgame because you can't put PAR files on a disk or CD-ROM and expect
- anyone to be able to play it like they could with .AVI, .MOV or MPEG.
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