My friend,
Shamshetdinov Serge
had developed original Add-On Card for capturing full videosignal (PAL/SECAM)
from camera into PC memory that time. It has 8-bit gray level ability and
DMA ideology at ISA bus. Based on low-price chips, its overall cost is less
then $30 for manufacturer.
There was also the C-language based program set for capturing the signal.
Serge also achieved success in recolorizing of picture on basis of
algorithmic signal reprocessing.
And I was inquired to develop the Assembler-based tool - for speeding and
more features in palette changing and film creating.
Being under financial support of a small enterprise, at last we did not
divide _future_ money... as ever...
And could not step over problems with DMA at i486 faster then DX/2-66.
So project is still voluntary.
As for speed:
at 386DX-40, Trident 9000i 512K ISA VESA 1.2 VGA 640x480x256
it shows 9 frames per second, without saving to disk.
This Add-On Card is great because of it main idea: the dump of signal to memory is readable and can been analyzed in different ways.
So we can try to decode other signals, such as
TeleText
,
Global Position System
etc.
Let's try !
Thanks All