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Re: Frame grabbing

From: "Ewan Sinclair" <>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 12:28:33 -0400

> Well I wonder, are you going to need to view those images later or you
just
> need to store them and retrieve them at a later time on a computer?

Just storage and reteival for now

> The idea would be not to use a full blown PC based system with an OS
> but rather something around a PIC/AVR microcontroller and a few other
chips
> (for hardware compression?) or even use a microprocessor based system.
> The challenge would be to take the firewire signals and convert them to
some
> usable format (jpg, tga etc and store on the CF) all without the need for
an
> OS.

You're quite right; this would be overkill in terms of hardware, but we were
hoping to expand the thing later. This just seemed like a good starting
point. Full video capture and processing capability will hopefully come
later, along with some audio storage and playback too. I just wanted so
figure how to grab frames first.

So would that mean my task is easier and doesn't require assembler? Please
say yes....

Ewan

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