Explanation of Rainbow runner types

[logic7]

I have my Mystique220 w/RRS sitting right next to me on my desk. I was debating on whether or not to put it up on Ebay, but I'm having the hardest time letting it go. I just stopped using the card last month. I have a 1.3GHz AMD Athlon Thunderbird machine that I was using it in. Win98SE, half a gig of RAM, pair of 40GB drives, and the Ulead software that came with it (I still have the original CD's and manuals). It worked GREAT!!! Had it hooked up to a VCR, recorded tv programs and flew some of my VHS tapes to VCD with it.

[Dr Mordrid]

Old and "out of date" it may be, but it does a great job which IMO makes it worthy of keeping.

The thing is that most later Matrox (and other) analog capture devices used/use cheap PROCAMP's (video amp chips) while the original RRS used a very robust one. That gave it an image quality edge that is still hard to beat. It can be mitigated by using an external PROCAMP box, but at a cost.

[Marshmallowman]

looks like you can get a decent linux driver for g series rainbow runers/marvel , but none for the earlier Studio ones

http://marvel.sourceforge.net/

[Bosanek]

First of all - I apologize for being almost four months late with a reply. I was rather busy in the middle of February, and I did not get email notifications although I was (and am) subscribed to this topic :S. So, I forgot about it until today, when I accidentaly bumped into it.

About the RR story - nothing important has happened since witner, as I was so busy that I did not have time for the old Pentium Pro. But this topic is a very useful collection of information, which will come in handy one day (if the forum does not get closed or hacked).

[cuddles]

Hi
I think the TV card is a NTSC format only and was not available in PAL format.
I still own a mystique/rrs kit that would still work. As I recall output to say a vcr was only in the mjpeg format. I used to use it on a P1 100Mghz 40mg ram, capture AVI_IO. huffy codec, edit MSP5.2 and encode to Mpeg 1 the burn to VCD, playback quality was very good.

My 2p worth

Cheers

[Bosanek]

Thank you for recalling that information.

I'll broaden the "search":
Does anybody know of any ISA/PCI capture card (non-Matrox) which has hardware intra-frame compression (M-JPEG, DV, etc., but not MPEG1/2/4)? If such card also has a TV tuner, that would be splendid.

[cuddles]

Hi
Perhaps one of the ledtak research tv cards (AV composite and S Videoaswell) would do just as good. or one of their usb models that give good portability.
Cheers