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To: DiViT who wrote (44460)	9/3/1999 2:07:00 PM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

G4 digital video: apple.com Digital video editing software for the G4: apple.com G4 FAQs discusses recording DVD movies on the DVD-RAM drive... but it's not clear if it includes an encoder.. apple.com

To: DiViT who wrote (44460)	9/9/1999 3:41:00 PM
From: Carnac	Respond to of 50808

It can probably do OK for MPEG-1 SIF. Cycle times are a little faster than the KNI counterparts (MMX-1 doesn't count -- too lame to even worth mentioning... not that KNI isn't lame also). G4 doesn't have a built in motion estimator. ~100 cycles per 16x16 block compare is hardly "built-in". 10 cycles would be more like it. It is just a packed compare & cross SIMD add instruction like the one in K7/3DNOW and P3/KNI. The hardware camp can excel in the low bitrate game (which is all that matters, and where software-only encoders are weakest) thanks to motion compensated deinterlacing and noise reduction (as per DiviCom ClearMotion). Will Cube position itself in time to do this for CE ? Probably not, as per usual.