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Old 3rd Mar 2006, 10:30 am   #4
oldeurope
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Default Re: PC as a standard convertor

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Originally Posted by YC-156
Please excuse my utter ignorance on most things regarding video, but I cannot help wondering: If my math isn't completely off, then the pixel rate of a 405 line video signal is 'only' around 5.5MHz.

With the speed of todays PCs it ought to be possible to simply synthesize the video signal in real time using a program combining brute force, data reuse, double buffering and table lookups. Then the video generation exercise is reduced to finding a way of converting this stream of 5.5 million bytes per second into an analog signal. That might mean convincing a video card into lending us its D/A converter via DMA in some fashion. Maybe another forum member has a better idea of accomplishing this.

Just a thought...

Frank N.
Yes I agree with Frank.
The question is who is first on the marked. The low cost aurora or the
PC solution?
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