Re: Multimedia APIs

Mike Melanson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.xine.codec.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Jim Leonard wrote:

> Here's the truly scary thing:  It is indeed possible.  Unless I'm making a
> horrible mistake, my initial tests and calculations show that the 360K
> floppy-disk version would be able to store 45 seconds without sound @ 8fps,
> and the hard-disk version would be able to play back 29.97fps with rudimentary
> Sound Blaster audio in as little as 64KBps, well within the playback rate of a
> 10MB MFM hard disk of 1983.  The secret?  Anyone who knows how early SegaCD
> streaming CDROM video formats were constructed will figure out what I'm doing
> in short order :)

	Bitplane format? Also, didn't you once mention that you had a
soundless clip of "Casablanca" that ran on a 286 and fit on a 1.44 MB
floppy?

--
	-Mike Melanson



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