Video capturing from different video sources (Sun, SGI, etc)

[Jim Leonard]

JP Hindin wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Jason McBrien wrote:
>> If you have a sun or SGI that outputs somewhat normal VGA, you could use
>> something like an Avermedia Quickplay to convert it to SVHS and record from
>> there.
> 
> If they outputted standard SVGA I'd just use a standard LCD panel ;)
> 
> Alas, no, the machines in question can only be relied upon to output
> standard SGI and standard Sun video.

Standard Sun video is just analog RGB, like VGA, right?  If so, the scan 
converter advice I gave you earlier is valid as long as you build a 
connector that carries the R, G, B, Hsync, Vsync lines over.
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