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Article: Super Motion Compression. (Hardware Review) (one of three articles on video multimedia equipment)(New Media Graphics Corp.'s graphics board/card) (Evaluation)
- Article from:
- Computer Shopper
- Article date:
- January 1, 1993
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The Super Motion Compression card for the Super VideoWindows card is built around the C-Cube compression chip, which provides the JPEG compression algorithm in hardware.
New Media Graphic claims that you can fit about one minute of video, at 30 frames per second, in just 10Mb. However, the actual file size will depend on your settings. The JPEG algorithm lets you set the quality for an image, which is a measure of how much information you're willing to lose during compression. Images of poorer quality consume less disk space, but a setting that is too low can make the image unrecognizable.
In my tests, using the capture and ...