[rescue] SGI... sweet!

[Kevin Loch]

I think miniDV, DVCam and Digital 8 all use exactly the same
codec, and write exactly the same bits to tape, the only difference
being
the physical package (and tape dimensions in the case of D8).

KL

Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:48:49PM -0400, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> > Actually, I just said that 12x was a lot of compression.  However, come to
> > think of it, Firewire and MiniDV only uses 4megs per second, and that
> > means that it is compressed even more.  Still, this rules out dual stream
> > editing, but you don't have the software for that anyway.
> 
> Dunno about MiniDV, but Firewire "a" is 400Mbps=50Mbytes/s; "b" is
> 800Mbps=100Mbytes/s.
> 
> Many typical DV-quality or lower streams are somewhere around 3.5-4megs per
> second.  Sony makes a box that accepts analog video and outputs 3.5meg/s.
> 
> > If by LVM, you are talking about Linux Volume Manager, then there is
> > something like that for irix.  But I don't know if it costs extra or not.
> 
> before Linux, LVM meant "logical volume management/manager".  I think XFS
> has this capability but the last Irix I played with was somewhere around 5.3
> and at that point was an add-in.
> 
> > Really, there are so many ways to do things on that machine.  I wish I had
> > one (on the list of things to consider once employment for fall and/or
> > spring is confirmed).
> 
> quote, "me too" endquote  :-)
> 
> ./patrick
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