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Video capture board
b_dfn.gif (837 bytes)Video Capture board:
Enables video to be captured via a Video Camera, Video Recorder or on-board tuner into the computer.
  • Movie images may be displayed on a Visual display unit (VDU), include film clips, and interactive images such as used in teleconferencing.
    • motion video recorded on CD
    • interactive video used in teleconferencing
    • surveillance cameras
  • Examples

[Sony Digital video camera]

Use & features

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Use

  • multimedia training, for example
    • a speech ,
    • recording screen sequences of software demo.
    • recording assembly of products
  • video clips in educational encyclopedias (eg. Encarta)
    eg. wildlife/nature sequences.
  • retail shop surveillance
  • PC surveillance (eg DigitalRadar), uses tethered video camera and activates when motion detected. (Thanks to Carol H NDBS'97).
    Connectix

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Features

  • The ability to capture video images onto the computer
  • The Video capture board in the computer is connectoed to the video camera, recorder or on-borad tuner.
  • To play video on the PC requires software capable of playing the video, such as "media player" in MS-Windows

Full-screen full motion video.

1996 saw the introduction of full screen full motion video (30 frames per second - the same as broadcast TV) in personal computers. Requires a minimum of a Pentium 90 under software control.

MPEG (Motion Picture Experts Group)

Indeo 4.0

References

[Rev: 20/07/00] Jun-97 © 1997-99 V/2-Com (Verhaart), P O Box 8415, Havelock North, New Zealand.