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- Grabbing Images from Amiga Screens
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- This function is available in the Project menu, and as a stand alone
- program for users with less than 1.5 megabytes of memory. It is the heart
- of image transmission from the AVT system.
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- The AVT system can grab video from any Amiga screen - at least, all the
- standard screens. This includes:
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- 320x200 2 color
- 320x200 4 color
- 320x200 8 color
- 320x200 16 color
- 320x200 32 color
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- 320x400 2 color
- 320x400 4 color
- 320x400 8 color
- 320x400 16 color
- 320x400 32 color
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- 640x200 2 color
- 640x200 4 color
- 640x200 8 color
- 640x200 16 color
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- 640x400 2 color
- 640x400 4 color
- 640x400 8 color
- 640x400 16 color
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- 320x200 Hold-and-Modify (HAM)
- 320x400 Hold-and Modify
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- This means that you can grab your workbench screen and send that puppy
- right on out... You can even send the control panel of the AVT system, if
- you like - it IS on it's own screen.
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- You'll notice that there are two grab entries in the project menu;
- One is "Grab Screen" and one is "Framed Grab".
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- Grab Screen attempts to take the ENTIRE image on the screen being grabbed
- and make it fit in the resolution you were in when you selected Grab Screen.
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- Framed Grab takes the source HAM screen pixel-by-pixel and captures it into
- the resolution you are using (128x128 or 256x256) regardless of the
- resolution of the source screen.
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- If you use the GrabScreen program supplied instead of the menu function,
- simply follow the prompts. You can grab in high or low resolution, from
- HAM or normal screens, and if a HAM screen, the option to grab pixel for
- pixel is also offered there.
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- You can run the GrabScreen program from either the CLI or the WorkBench.
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- Let's say you are in high resolution (256x240). If you do a regular grab of
- a HAM screen, the program takes the 320 by 200 and compresses it into the
- 256x240. As you might well imagine, some information is lost - there
- just aren't enough pixels, even in standard hi-res SSTV, to represent
- all the data on a screen as dense as a standard HAM screen.
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- In Framed Grab, The program will take the FIRST 256 pixels from the left
- side of the HAM screen, and map those directly into the SSTV image.
- This means that image information on the right is lost - but the information
- that WAS taken is 100% accurate - pixel-for-pixel. If you use the AVT modes,
- you'll find that you can send sections of your HAM screens all the way
- around the world, and the recipient will be able to read the text you
- might have typed in there - in any font at all.
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- Of course, you can use the 94 second mode - that is 320 pixels wide, and
- you WILL get all the pixels.
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- AVT System SSTV resolutions
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- In order to make the most effective use of the Grab facility, you should
- have a good understanding of what the AVT considers each SSTV mode. This is
- because the AVT really only has three internal modes:
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- 128x128 b&w or color
- 256x240 b&w or color
- 320x200 color only
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- These modes "cover" the other SSTV modes - that is, particular SSTV modes
- map into one or another of these resolutions. This is which SSTV modes that
- the AVT supports which match which resolutions (sure is a lot of "whiches!"):
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- 128x128
- 8.5 second B&W
- 8.5 second frame sequential color
- 8.0 second Robot B&W
- 8.0 second frame sequential Robot color
- 12 second Robot "composite color"
- 12 second Robot B&W
- 24 second AVT color
- 24 second Volker-Wrasse line sequential red-enhanced sync color
- 24 second "composite" robot color
- 25.5 Line sequential color
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- 256x240
- 17 second B&W (Mode a - nominally 128x256)
- 17 second Frame sequential color (a)
- 17 second B&W (Mode b - nominally 256x128)
- 17 second Frame sequential color (b)
- 24 second Robot B&W
- 24 second Robot frame sequential color
- 36 second Robot B&W
- 34 second Std hi-res B&W
- 34 second Frame sequential hi-res color
- 36 second Robot "composite" color
- 48 second Volker-Wrasse line sequential red-enhanced syn color
- 51 second line sequential color
- 72 second Robot "composite" color
- 90 second AVT color
- 96 second Volker-Wrasse line sequential red-enhanced sync color
- 102 second line sequential color
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- 320x200
- 94 second AVT color
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- The thing to keep in mind about the Grab operations is that when you are in
- one of the above modes, the Grab goes into one of the three resolutions
- named above - and which one it goes into simply depends on which
- sstv mode you're in - which one of the three classes of modes broken out
- in the above table.
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- Here is an example: You are currently in 24 second AVT mode and you do
- a Grab. That measn you grabbed in 128x128 - because the 24 second AVT
- mode is under the 128x128 classigfication.
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- After a while, you'll know just off the top of your head - in the meantime,
- refer to this table as required.
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