choices for AGP, openGL, and NTSC framegrabbing in one package
From: Wiseguy (noone_at_celeron.local)
Date: 08/03/04
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Date: 2 Aug 2004 18:00:04 -0500
OK. It is time for me to jump to ahead the of the curve and build a new
machine. So far I've settled on a dual processor Xeon machine with 2GB of
memory and all common disk interfaces: LVD-SCSI/USB/UDMA/SATA...
Anyway, the big stumbling block is the graphics engine. I absolutely hate
using Pinnacle Studio under windows for MPEG4 video creation/archiving and
am scared to death to even investigate the USB framegrabber devices.
The SAA7146 based PCI framegrabber that came with Studio will never be
supported under linux.
I also need the ability to work with sophisiticated 3D openGL models using
high animation framerates.
I've looked at the two frontrunners in the video market (ATI and NVIDIA) and
am not impressed with the marketting hype and lack of open programmer
interface.
At first I was leaning toward a medium to high end NVidia card but I also
want to take advantage of TV input and the ATI All in wonder cards provide
that functionality (but only in windoze).
The problem with the ATI products are that virtually anything modern in that
platform isn't fully supported yet under linux or Xfree4.4.
To summarize, I want:
lots and lots of vertices per second
128MB video memory
don't need more than 1280x1024@72hz
openGL support for 16bpp at uber-speeds and hardware z-buffering
SVIDEO and/or composite video out and support for dual headed operation
(VGA and TV at the same time with different resolutions/refresh rates)
audio and video input to pipe VHS content to disk
(either by internal TV tuner or composite/svideo input)
Any recommendations, or real published specifications and reviews of
products that meet my needs?
Or should I hope and pray that the Radeon 9(7/8)00 AIW chip will be supported
and relatively bug free sometime soon under linux-video and xfree 4.4?
-wiseguy
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