Re: Best real-time DVD video recorder?

It would be nice if the Media 100 folks all got on the same page when answering technical questions.

Answering that large image support will come with the HD version is not acceptable. That is going to come at a hefty upgrade price including storage. I was told that it looks like it will require a move to 2Gb Fibre Channel (if that answer was correct) in addition to the HD upgrade.

One of the primary reasons I choose the 844/X was because I was told that MPEG and large image support was already on the boardset and that it only required software in a future update to activate it. XBlur should have been implemented as a daughter card using a vacant over-the-top connector.

I'm not flaming Media 100 or the 844/X. I'm just a bit concerned regarding the direction that the software is headed. Every new version is adding new features that require additional processing passes. Pretty soon, we'll have to drop the term "processing" and go back to "rendering".

I'm also very concerned about the whole filter stack hierarchy concept. I take issue with losing real-time function due to re-ordering the stack to make certain filters work properly. It seems like a poor design concept to me. I'm wasting a lot of time processing geometrics passes that would normally be real-time except for the fact that I've now applied a border and/or a drop shadow on PIPs that are less than the supported four "real-time" layers. If it was realtime to start, it should stay real-time regardless of resorting the filter stack hierachy.

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