What I would actually like to do, is use a SunVideo card,
and I would then like to be able to write a program that
takes the video input stream and then do one of two things.
1. Compress this as mpeg/cell whatever save on disk.
The play back this video in a Metacard window.
2. Take that input stream from SunVideo and display it immediately
in a metacard stack.
Any ideas on how I might go about this
See ya
Tim
> From metacard-list@grot.starconn.com Fri Apr 29 09:20 WST 1994
> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 94 16:20 PDT
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> From: Scott Raney <raney@metacard.com>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <metacard-list@grot.starconn.com>
> Subject: Re: .fli File Info Request
>
> >
> > On Thu, 28 Apr 1994, XoBe wrote:
> >
> > > I am going to use Macintosh software to create quicktime files. The use Debabelizer to convert the files to fli/flc. It works. Except for the annoyance that MetaCard refuses to replay videoclips on a monochrome monitor.
> >
> > I don't have a problem with converting Mac or PC quicktime or other files
> > to .fli or whatever so I can use it on my Sun. My problem is in getting
> > the quicktime or whatever file from my Sun. I can do screen grabs
> > (stills) from my Sun and pull in the converted raster images to MetaCard,
> > but I am not sure how I can make the jump to video grabs on my Sun to .fli
> > format to import into MetaCard. Any suggestions on this? I am using a
> > non-commercial package on the Sun, so I can't run it on Mac or PC. Anyone
> > know of a good video grabber for the Sun?
>
> Now I'm confused. What is the source of your "video"? Is it just
> screen grabs of an application, or is it *true* video from a card such
> as a Parallax board?
>
> If the former, a product like ScreenPlay might do what you need. It
> records what you do with your application, and can play it back later
> (it saves screen snapshots into a file at a frame rate you specify):
> RAD Technologies, Inc. 745 Emerson St. Palo Alto, CA 94301
> Tel: 415-968-4800 Fax: 415-940-1961 e-mail: info@rad.com
>
> If the latter, then you'd need something like Uniflix from Paradise
> Software (609-275-4475), which works directly with the hardware to
> digitize analog video. Playback is software only, though, so you can
> play it back on any system.
> Scott
>
> > > /Olov Bergqvist
> > > Ericsson Infocom Consultants AB
> >
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