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To: Jay who wrote (47960)2/17/1998 5:20:00 AM
From: Paul Engel  Respond to of 186894
 
Jay - Re: "Whatever happened to the fractal compression algos?"

Don't know, but I suspect there was no broad based industry support.

On the other hand, MPEG-2 seems to be the standard that most people support.

Re: "CPU speeds are now fast enough to solve the problem using software ..."

There are two issues - and the one that pertains to you (VCR/CAM Corder recording/digitizing) is the toughest - COMPRESSION. I believe Intel and/or Zoran or some such outfit has demonstrated SOFTWARE MPEG-2 compression on a high speed Pentium II (266 MHz or better, as I recall).

The decompression of MPEG-2, for video output/display, is readily handled by reasonably fast processors.

Paul