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John, >> In other words you've got a passion for NT I take it. <g> Well, after I discovered how nice NT is compared to the alternatives, I went ahead and installed a network at our office, (7 machines), using NT as the server, and including a few other NT stations hanging off it. Thanks to insights gained from watching the WINNT forum, it all went off without a single hitch! Now my boss thinks I'm a guru. <g> >> fundemental concerns right now that have my attention more…. like what about capture capability… I *believe* some low end video capture works, like the VideoBlaster or something, but below is a post from the WINNT forum today: _________________________________________________________________________ Forum: WinNT+ Section: H/W Compatibility Subj : Video Capture To : Dan Buendia, 76722,2107 Saturday, July 08, 1995 3:08:07 AM From : Jan Bottorff, 74775,546 #428031 In annoyance of the lack of NT device drivers for video capture, I've taken on the background project of creating drivers myself. MANY of the available boards use the Philips digitalk video chipsets (7191/7194/7196/7110). I currently have, and am using as a reference model, the Miro D1 capture board. This is a dumb ISA bus capture only board. If things go well (and I have enough free time from my paying consulting projects), I'll adapt the drivers to other boards. The Miro D1 seems quite capable of 320x240xYUVx30fps (actually better, but not 640x480x60 fields/sec). For something like MPEG compression, doing RAW YUV capture seems like a potential good idea, provided you have very large high speed disks. I'm also looking for a PCI bus based simple capture card. Any ideas? Philips seems to have a reference design, including PCI interface chips codesigned with Intel. After the dumb capture cards, ones with hardware compression/decompression come next. It will be a month or two for the first driver. I'll drop some messages around when it's time. – Jan