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To: BillyG who wrote (35138)	8/11/1998 6:58:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

Matrox again. Buyer beware, this is a news group post............ x8.dejanews.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: Rainbow Runner drive-related problems From: geno_cyber@softhome.net Date: 1998/08/06 Message-ID: <35c9ea68.18544373@207.126.101.101> Newsgroups: rec.video.desktop [More Headers] [Subscribe to rec.video.desktop] On Thu, 06 Aug 1998 16:11:09 GMT, cuillin@my-dejanews.com wrote: >full-frame MJPEG video. To be honest, I assumed that with a UDMA/33 drive I >wouldn't get any dropped frames - was I expecting too much from such a low- >priced product as Rainbow Runner? Or do I really need to invest in ultra-wide >SCSI to eliminate dropped frames? > >Any advice gratefully received! This is what I expected too when I assembled my P233MMX/64MB/TX/6.4GB UDMA33 system for the Mystique170-4MB+RR combination. Unfortunately the RR it's good only at 352x288 and not with every video-signals!. The MJPEG code drops a lot of frames, also the board itself gets hot and this could be another cause for the dropped frames issue (bad board design practically), then we have the fact that the drivers have a lot of bugs. No one knows yet if the next upcoming RR drivers' release will be able to solve the dropped-frames issue at least in part or not, but what's for sure is the fact that Matrox is going to drop the old Mystique/Millenium2 and RR lines. In fact these products are even unavailable in shops and I doubt that they're producing them anymore. Well, I believe that my next capture card will probably be an expensive Miro card... I am waiting for their announcements about new MPEG2(C-Cube's)+MJPEG combined cards, just because that they will release a new set of capture cards which combine both MJPEG and the new C-Cube's DVx MPEG-2 SingleChip technology. It would be a top-notch capture card, if they will be able to sell such a card at the same price of the DC30 or even lower. Obviously these are just my wishes, and I sincerely hope that Miro/Pinnacle will follow them..