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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!well!well.sf.ca.us!eob
- From: eob@well.sf.ca.us (Eamonn O'Brien)
- Subject: Re: Interest in Full Motion video, without hardware.
- Message-ID: <eob.724559157@well.sf.ca.us>
- Sender: news@well.sf.ca.us
- Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
- References: <18105@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 02:25:57 GMT
- Lines: 42
-
- John,
-
- I just happened to see the following on the net. I have no idea what the
- context of the discussion is. By the way I saw some of your software
- being demo'ed at the Stanford University bookstore earlier this year.
-
- All the best,
-
- Eamonn O'Brien-Strain eob@well.sf.ca.us
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- In <18105@mindlink.bc.ca> Peter_Roosen@mindlink.bc.ca (Peter Roosen) writes:
-
- >> Mike Dixon writes:
- >>
- >> Msg-ID: <mdixon.723269021@thelonius>
- >> Posted: 2 Dec 92 04:03:41 GMT
- >>
- >> Org. : Xerox PARC
- >>
- >> Peter_Roosen@mindlink.bc.ca (Peter Roosen) writes:
- >>
- >> >I have to disagree. With standard decompression techniques your arguments
- >> >are valid. But there do exist video compression technology capable of
- >> >delivering 60:1 or more video compression, maintaining a very high quality
- >> of
- >> >video.
- >>
- >> you're missing the point. it doesn't matter how good your compression
- >> algorithm is; you still need to have 30MB/s going from your processor
- >> to your video ram. it isn't going to happen on your current hardware.
- >>
- >> .mike.
-
-
- >What? With a serious compression scheme only data that changes from frame to
- >frame needs to be updated. Where is this figure of 30MBs from. I would like
- >to see some math.
-
-
- >Peter Roosen
-
-