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Pegger

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#69338From: Jim MccabeNov 28, 1993 1:27 PM
Has anybody used Pegger for automatically decompressing JPEG'd files for use in single framing with the Toaster and the Personal SFC ? I'm getting an error message (I believe it's from the Personal SFC) when I try to set up a sequence of frames for laying to tape. Immediately after I specify the sequence of frames, Pegger decompresses the first frame to an IFF24 format (I did specify RLE format upon compression), and, presumably when it's finished I get the error message "Fails IFF check and may be corrupt (the actual file length disagrees with the expected size)". Thanks.
#69456From: Nathan WahlNov 29, 1993 11:23 PM
Jim, I wondered about that. My SFC died similarly, but it choked on the JPEG files that I had it do the conversion on the first time. Might be a bug in the decompression scheme. I'll ask Terry if he's at WOCA this weekend. Do you notice much delay when using Pegger? Nate, Emerald Video. Finally on 3.0!
#69475From: Jim MccabeNov 30, 1993 9:59 AM
I talked to Terry and also to the Pegger folks. It seems that the SFC software from about ver. 2.0 and later automatically reads JPEG files directly, so you don't need Pegger for that. I tried it and it works fantastic. If you do want to use Pegger, Terry says to turn off the "Verify IFF" function on the SFC setup screen (the one that identifies the VTR you're using). I tried that, but the SFC seemed to open every file in the sequence for some reason, so I aborted it and went without the Pegger. Much cleaner and quicker.