Ye Olden Schoolen Rainbow Runner (Mystique220)

[logic7]

I have an opportunity to buy a Mystique 220 with a RainbowRunner for cheap (believe me... extra super dirt cheap). Were these any good for editing videotapes? Did they have much in the way of dropped frames? It would be used on the following system:

Celeron 466@525MHz
Gigabyte socket370 mobo w/VIA chipset
Obsidian S12 AGP Voodoo2 - 12MB
512MB ram
30GB DMA100 HD - primary, 10GB GMA100 HD - secondary
SBLive Value

and assorted other sundries.

Oh, the AGP Voodoo2 is no typo. Obsidian made the only card like this. I picked it up for $40. Currently, the pc has a generic Trident PCI 2D card in it.

[paulw]

If it's dirt cheap take it. It is a Win9x card only .. No Win2K drivers. I have one and it works fine up to about 2.5 Meg/sec capture speed. I do loose the odd frame at that speed.. At 2Meg/sec it seems to capture all day.


I'm not sure how it will co-habitat with you AGP card. I seem to remember that the Mystique must be the primary video card.

[logic7]

Yeah, the box would run Win98SE. So, I sould get decent quality out of it? I remember these things costing $300+ back in the day. This would be a hell of a deal for less than $30.

Would it compare to a Miro Studio DC10?

Oh, the AGP voodoo acts the same as a PCI voodoo. The Matrox card would be primary.

[paulw]

From memory the DC10 was 352 x 480 half frame capture. The Matrox RainbowRunner does full frame 704 x 480 NTSC. The quality is only as good as what you feed in. I am happy enough with mine. Just make sre that you get the correct drivers from the Matrox site..

[Patrick]

Driver info in this thread...

http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php?s=&threadid=29765

[This_Idiot]

Go for it !

My original tutorials

T_I

[cuddles]

Looks good, I couldn't get a AGP & Mystique to co- habit.
And as Paul says at the right data rate it's bullet proof.
With your ram it should just rock n roll.