#Desktop Video
What are the VideoSpigot's capture specs? I wonder if it is really much
different than the Amiga LIVE! board, which has been around for at least
six years.
With LIVE! hooked up to my lowly, unaccelerated A500 (also six years
old!), I can capture and display in real time overscanned full-screen
greyscale video at around 15 frames per second (I can play it back from
disk faster than that, but of course the action speeds up). With the
associated Invision Plus software, I can tile such an image up to 16 times
on a full screen at the same frame rate.
Of course, employing color, LIVE! doesn't handle anything better than
4,096-color HAM at single-digit frame rates, but HAM was the Amiga top of
the line when LIVE! came out. Plus, I can do real-time effects on the
incoming image (mosaic, mirror, Venetian blinds, etc.) and save the result
as an ANIM that'll play back about as snappily as a Quicktime movie, based
on what I've seen. I wonder how many true colors a VideoSpigot type board
can display in full screen at and at what frame rate.
— Ron Legro, Milwaukee
via AUTOPILOT (the only way to fly)