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To: E. Davies who wrote (4728)	7/19/1999 1:38:00 PM
From: TheSlowLane	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12823

"What kind of business data would approach or exceed one video stream per person?" A multi-point videoconference would require more than one stream. Also, collaborative applications (film-editing, virtual reality, 3-D modeling, etc.) used concurrently with videoconferencing would require multiple video streams. One of the issues that then raises is...what kind of horsepower do you need on the desktop to compress and decompress multiple video streams in real-time? I have seen a system that can provide these capabilities (30 frames/second, high-resolution - no herky-jerky stuff here) without requiring a dedicated CODEC. However, it uses ATM to the desktop and a system running an AltiVec processor (Motorola's latest version of PowerPC).