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Finding the hacked 8600 video capture; from German hacker?
Posted by: deltroid on 2015-09-11 16:06:21
 Need help finding the driver/hack to enable a powermac 8600 to capture video at higher fps: think it was 30fps at I believe it was 640x480? I remember a german person hacked a file or something to enable what I previously mentioned. If someone know what I'm talking about and can help me find it I would appreciate it. I have a aftermarket scsi card with a 160gb scsi drive and 4mb vram;with a radeon 7000 pci card with dvi to help. Thanks

Posted by: mopar300m on 2015-09-12 12:45:05
I was under the impression that the onboard capture on the 7600/8600 was already at 30 fps (60 fields per second)/640x480 capture.

Posted by: NJRoadfan on 2015-09-12 17:36:35
The chip used is a Philips SAA7xxx series if I recall. That chip should have no problem capturing 720x480/576 at 29.97/25fps (NTSC/PAL). Apple's software may limit it to lower resolutions though. Not surprising as a stock PPC from that era doesn't have a fast enough CPU or storage subsystem to handle full frame SD video.

Posted by: 604ev on 2015-09-18 03:14:18
No way buddies,

Even on a beige G3 it's 320x240 @ 15FPS.

If you want a 720x576 @ 29.97 or 25fps with 16bit @ 48 or 24 Khz audio, you should buy my Canopus ADVC1394 PCI card.

It does native capture in DV format so it's 12Gb/Hour... thus very few Mb/s & very low CPU.

https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/23600-fs-canopus-advc-1394-pci-video-capture-card/

Posted by: techknight on 2015-09-18 07:02:49
yea, or a chipset that does encoding/compression on the fly. 

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