Posted by Tony on 10/03/05 03:49

On Sat, 1 Oct 2005 10:04:28 +0300, "Jukka Aho" <jukka.aho@iki.fi> wrote:

>AnthonyR wrote:
>
>> "Jona Vark" <noemail@all.com> wrote
>>
>>> Pay attention! I was talking about getting a 125Mb/s data down a
>>> 25Mb/s format (DV).
>
>> 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?
>
>Bits are not bytes. Mbit/s is not the same as MB/s.

I stand corrected. I was capturing 22/MBS (megabytes per second, or approximately 1GB of video per
minute) on my Toaster in 1999 using 3 U80 36GB SCSI drives at. Now, I have 4 U320 Seagate Cheetahs
and can do way better than that.

Tony
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