On Saturday, March 23, 2002, at 09:22 PM, Matt Jordan wrote:
> It is *officially* all processor intensive with the original 16MHz
> 68030!
> :-) I found some creative solutions.
Phew. I thought you were cheating ;).
> Here's how you do it:
>
> Other than 20MB of RAM and an external SCSI Zip Drive there has been
> nothing
> else added. (Its original processor is still soldered in place and the
> PDS
> slot is empty)
>
> VIDEO: The SE/30 with its stock 16MHz 68030 and internal video with
> *no*
> grayscale adapter can play video with full frame, full motion, and sound
> using Quicktime 2.5.
I'm a little skeptical about the viewing quality but a cool stunt all
the same. I know the SE/30 was blessed with a pretty astounding
QuickDraw GX system, to the point where it'll support 3 screens.
> Smaller videos (approx 200x200) work best... and play it back directly
> from RAM.
So, with a 68030/50MHz DayStar card mine should whip it up ;). I have a
set of MAc ads in QT format that I use to benchmark my Macs video
playback. Thr later 'Think Different' ads don't play at all well on my
840av but will they on an SE/30? It'd be a tad embarrassing if they did!
> MUSIC: Using a PowerPC based Mac, I take an MP3 and use SoundApp PPC
> and
> convert it into a compressed 16-bit PCM encoded Quicktime Movie
> soundtrack
> file and put it on a Zip disk... Much like video,
> playing music on a SE/30 is truly impressive -- especially when I plug
> my
> sound system into the Audio Out jack.
Much better idea - hang an external CD on the machine and rip an album
to the hard disk using a utility called 'Record from CD' that I have on
my Quadra. This pulls CD Tracks straight to AIFF. Then play them back -
instant audio excellence. As a space saver you could rip them to 8-bit
mono as this is the best the SE/30 sound system can do so it'd save the
machine down sampling meaning you could maybe even work and listen to
the music at the same time! Again the Quality would take a hit compared
to the original.
> Now you all know how to use an SE/30 to impress your friends, if anyone
> has
> trouble doing anything I have just described just ask me for more
> details/help.
Just wonder a bit OT, I have a Quadra 840av which to be frank is the
most amazing audio/visual machine I've used, including my G3 B&W! I can
pull CD audio off at 16-bit stereo 44.1KHz and play it back while
playing a different movie and running ClarisWorks, bloody amazing for a
machine powered by a 68040/40MHz and aged about 8 years.
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