"Roman Golubovski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >A friend from a TV station would like to set a system for >continuous 24h (or on-demand) recording of 16 TV channels >(composite or AV) with professional quality.
Presumably they have heard of tape recorders, they're after a computer-based solution for whatever reason and this is why they asked Roman... Do they want to do something like maintain a recording of the last 7 days of output, and have random access to it to review/archive certain segments? Somebody like Avid (http://www.avid.com) will probably build them a system to do that, but it won't be cheap! An alternative might be to have a suite of PCs or Macs running standard video capture and editing software like Apple Final Cut Express or Adobe Premiere. You'd have to think about how the 'continuous' recording was going to work in that case - maybe rolling over from one file to another every few hours using some kind of software scripting, depending on what those packages are capable of. I don't know of any solutions in between those two, but that doesn't mean they don't exist... As for data rate and disc space, I believe DV is generally considered the entry level for 'professional' quality, and a DV stream is 3.6 megabytes per second. Dr Tom Hawkins High Throughput Screening Analyst, Associated Octel ltd PO Box 17, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire CH65 4HF, UK +44 (0)151 355 3611 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------- Email provided by http://www.ntlhome.com/
