Hey Pascal!

Dec 13 21:25 04, Pascal Schmidt wrote to Roy J. Tellason:

 PS> Recoding (plus scaling) MPEG2 to MPEG4 video on a K6-2 450 MHz, which 
 PS> was a twelve hour job for a two hour movie. That kind of scripted 
 PS> video processing was quite doable. Anything interactive was mostly 
 PS> out of the question, at least as far as Linux programs went.

I was roughly calculating that at least a 800MHz cpu would be needed to
digitize in real time.

 PS> It's not that CPU intensive as far as I can tell. 3-5% CPU load on 
 PS> this 1.3GHz system. Systems feels very slow due to the hard drive 
 PS> having a lot to do.

That is usually the case.  A seperate HD for burning is the best way to handle that.

Speaking of all this, I finally got the 44-pin iDOC booting on the pc/104
guy and had to use the DOC on the other board (will be headed your way very
soon) to create a secondary bootable DOC for the pc/104 so that it could be
used to flash systems from it to bootable ide flash disks.  As soon as I
get pcmcia working - won't be bootable for now - I can get it doing the
routing again and will be able to liberate the SMP guy for all sorts of
digital stuff.  I was thinking about adding DVD and seeing if I can
allocate cpu1 to handle that end of things.  That way one cpu is always
held in reserve for whatever else needs to be done.  I had a ttylinux
booting on a 40-pin iDOC on this machine but it was a tad bloated (~24M). 
I'll get there yet.

What a hassel but it can be fun ... when it finally works that is.  Is
there anything new on the site that I might be interested in?  I haven't
checked for awhile.

Life is good,
Maurice

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