On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Curtis Burisch wrote: > To tell the truth, no! > > I need a compression scheme which will allow me to fit 10s of high-quality > video into < 200Mb. The compression scheme must be fairly quick to decode. > And it must be royalty-free. MPEG was my choice based on these specs, but > I'm open to reason!! Well - I like mpeg myself. But I don't think hardware compression is required. Of course, it depends what "high quality" means for you, how much CPU your target platform has. As a data-point, my Athlon 1.13GHz box can do software mpeg capture at 352x288 PAL off a cheap capture card using around 23% of the CPU. I can and do capture two streams simultaneously, and can playback two streams alongside that fine too. (I did find that two 720x576 captures running together seemed to run into PCI bus contention.). Steve
