On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 04:11:51PM +0200, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > > If you are going to use RGB32, you can have two with Intel motherboards > (if target is PCI/AGP/main memory), 1-2 with VIA (if target is PCI > or main memory), and 0-1 (bzzt, thanks for playing) with VIA if target > is AGP. Actually the target would be an encoder, mp1e specifically, for the moement, not a display device. > With some of YUV formats, which use about half of RGB32 bandwidth, > 3 Bt848 definitely work with Intel 32bit 33MHz PCI Cool. I should think 3 would suffice to deal with multiple programs in a single timeslot. > (and I have no more > grabbers to check). Well, it is good to know that this opinion is from experience. > But do not forget that usually you also want to > do some operations with data you grab: write them to disk, compress > and so on. Correct. Compress it and then write it to disk would be my game. > If you are writting data to disk uncompressed, you'll have > problems with more than one grabber in the 32bit 33MHz PCI box. Right! Which is why I would write it to disk post-compression. Thanks for your opinions Petr. b. -- Brian J. Murrell
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