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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
Cc: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sourceforge.net>,
	linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	clemtaylor@comcast.net, qg@biodome.org, rogers@isi.edu
Subject: Re: reverse engineering pwcx
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 14:08:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1093716530.8611.47.camel@krustophenia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1093716249.8611.45.camel@krustophenia.net>

On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 14:04, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 13:53, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> > On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Lee Revell wrote:
> > >
> > > How do you account for the Slashdot poster's assertion that it's
> > > physically impossible to cram 640 x 480 worth of data down a USB 1.1
> > > pipe?
> > 
> > 640x480 = 307200 pixels
> > x 24 bits = 7372800 bits per frame (.9MB)
> > x 30 fps = 221184000
> > 
> > so that's 221mb/s for uncompressed 640x480. dv with 16bit pcm is 25Mb/s 
> > typically which is still a bit more than double what you can reasonably 
> > push through a usb1.1 port. raw you can push about 1.6 fp/s at 640x480 
> > through usb so your compression ratio needs to be order of 15 to 1 make 
> > it fit reasonably with room for overhead.
> 
> 15 to 1 is impossible without lossy compression.

Disregard, Vojtech's post clears things up.

Lee


  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-28 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-28 16:17 reverse engineering pwcx Albert Cahalan
2004-08-28 16:25 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-28 16:56   ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-28 17:11     ` Lee Revell
2004-08-28 18:05       ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-08-28 17:53   ` Joel Jaeggli
2004-08-28 18:04     ` Lee Revell
2004-08-28 18:08       ` Lee Revell [this message]
2004-08-29 21:04 ` Helge Hafting
2004-08-30  7:42   ` Paul Jakma
2004-08-30 12:52     ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-30 20:23       ` dulle
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-28  0:52 QuantumG
     [not found] ` <20040828012055.GL24018@isi.edu>
     [not found]   ` <20040828014931.GM24018@isi.edu>
2004-08-28  3:14     ` QuantumG
2004-08-28  3:35       ` Craig Milo Rogers
2004-08-28  3:49         ` Lee Revell
2004-08-28 12:23           ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-08-28 19:20             ` Chris Meadors
2004-08-28  3:57         ` QuantumG
2004-08-28 12:07       ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-08-28  6:47 ` Clem Taylor
2004-08-28 12:23   ` Wouter Van Hemel

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