> 3. I wanted to use my 6500 to record stuff off a Tivo because it has
> the video in card. After trying a few things, though, I've found
> QuickTime's capture results to be prettty choppy. Anyone tried using
> that video in card to capture video under a *nix? If so, would it be
> good enough to make it worth the effort? This is a 275mhz 6500 with
> 96mb RAM and no l2 cache chip, so it ain't exactly a powerhouse.
Presumably, you're using OS9.something. Adding more RAM will probably
help, since video capture needs a *lot* of bandwidth (200MB/minute) &
the choppiness you're seeing probably comes from having to shuffle
stuff onto the disk too quickly. If you're using an original SCSI
drive, it *should* be sufficiently fast but adding a big fast drive
just for video capture will certainly help as well... but max out the
RAM first.
As far as CPU horsepower goes, a 275MHz system should be sufficient --
people used to edit video fairly regularly on 180MHz Macs. My wife used
a 100MHz 8100 before moving to a G4 dualie, but it had the Media100
hardware so that was cheating. ;-)
There are video apps available for Linux, but I doubt you'd get any
better results unless (again) you added more RAM & maybe a faster
hard drive. I don't know if the performance would be any better or
not, in general. The big question is whether the Linux software would
support the Apple A/V card.
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Larry Kollar, Senior Technical Writer, ARRIS
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value in the information life cycle."
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