Posted by Richard Crowley on 10/01/05 04:19

"AnthonyR" wrote ...
> There's something fishy with these numbers somewhere.
> While Tony is right that the Toaster captures incompressed
> video at around 22mb/s and dv is compressed at 5 to 1, I
> always thought the actual data rate needed was only around
> 3.6 mb/s for mini dv video/ Someone I think mistaking some
> number here somewhere. Any pros have the answer?

The rule-of-thumb 13.7GB/hour of DV comes out to 3.8MB/sec
Since DV is compressed 5:1, 5x 3.8MB = around 19MB/sec.
This is close enough to your rough recollections that I don't
see any particularly "fishy" about the numbers.

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