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From: christophe.guizard@cemagref.fr (Christophe GUIZARD)
Subject: Re: Matrox Meteor framegrabber too slow?
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In article <3qfh8i$sel@hacgate2.hac.com>, 6642@sbsun0010.sbrc.hac.com 
says...
>
>Dear netters,
>
>I purchased a Matrox Meteor PCI framegrabber ($499) in April.  The goal
>is to capture AND display video in 640x480 resolution, 15 bpp RGB, ~30 
fps.
>So far, I got only ~6 fps.
>
>Here is my setup:
>Computer: Micron P100 8MB RAM (Triton chipset with EDO ram)
>Graphics: ATI WinTurbo 2MB VRAM
>Software: MIL Lite 2.0 with Borland C and Windows support
>
>I called Matrox support, found out their software was still pre-release 
:-(
>I am waiting for the full release next month, with Watcom C and DOS 
support.
>
>Quick questions:
>1. Does anyone have a similar setup and how does yours perform?
>2. Is there any other PCI framegrabbers available today on the market?
>
>Thanks in advance.
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Matrox have some problems with the PCI chip intreface, they re-design all 
the board based on PCI bus for this reason.

I think it's a software independent, but of course with 32bit compiler you 
can get better results if the hardware follow. It's like the transputer 
links...

Now you can find somes others boards on the market:
Imaging technology
BitFlow Raptors series
DataTranslation DT3155
Imagraph Imascan series
....

Sincerely
C. GUIZARD
Head of Vision Program
CEMAGREF
email: christophe.guizard@cemagref.fr

