Abekas A62 -- real time D1 video recording/playback?

[Marc Boucher]

weinshan at milton.u.washington.edu (John Campbell) writes:


>   Does anyone know if the Abekas A62 can record real time D1 video
>   (27 Mbytes/sec)??
> 
>   You are witnessing an 11th hour operation. 

>   E-mail or post replies.
>   Thanks in advance, 

>   john


The A62 is a composite digital (D2) machine.

The A60 is D1, and can record 25 seconds (750 frames) of real time video. It
has 2 (selectable) D1 input ports.  It also features an ethernet port, with
TCP/IP. You can transfer (read/write) YUV (D1,4:2:2) frames with rcp, or ftp
from your IRIS, and control it either from its keyboard, or via a little
command shell available through telnet or rlogin:

(19:48) marc at Cactus:~% rlogin abekas.anim.postimage.com
Abekas A60 Remote Login
a60% help
Commands:           (type help <command> for more info)
  play     - play from current position
  stop     - stop
  goto     - seek the disk to a particular location
  jog      - step the disk heads by a field or frame
  defseg   - define a new segment
  goseg    - goto the start of the given segment
  playseg  - play the segment list from the current position
  clearseg - clear the segment list
  loop     - loop over the given range
  loopseg  - loop through the given segments
  quit/exit/^C/^D   - close the connection
  where    - return the current frame number
  record   - record from a variety of sources
  protect/unprotect  - record lockout for the given range
  mode     - set or verify the display mode
  disable/enable  - disable the Control Panel
  freeze   - freeze the display
  input    - select video input
  trigger  - control of audio timecode trigger
  backup/restore - control of SCSI Tape archiving
  browse   - verify data on tape without recording to disk
  mt       - tape position control and status
for the remaining commands type 'help more'
a60% help more
  pattern  - draw the specified test pattern
  move     - copy frames from one place to another
  macro    - execute the given control panel macro
  recrel   - record relative to current position
  tape     - select drive and tape format
  remote   - send serial control packets
  version  - returns current version number and date
  rcp      - .rgbx and .key extensions, store and window transfers
for more info type help <individual command>
a60% help undoc
Undocumented Commands
debug   - set the debug mask
dump <addr>    - dump 68000 memory
stat    - shows the status of the connections
reset   - clears down TCP connections
stack   - shows stack usage by task
ether   - low level statistics
tcp <n> - statistics for tcp block n
window [high_window low_window] - tune the window
time [value]   - report or set the retry timeout 18 = 1 sec
hostname - change the hostname returned in prompt
scsi [res | <blocksize>]     - scsi reset or override blocksize 
a60% stat
sd 0 port 21 host 0.0.0.0 port 0 Listen
sd 1 port 514 host 0.0.0.0 port 0 Listen
sd 2 port 513 host 192.4.1.1 port 1023 Established
sd 3 port 23 host 0.0.0.0 port 0 Listen
a60% Connection closed.
(19:50) marc at Cactus:~% ftp abekas.anim
Connected to a60.Prod.PostImage.COM.
220 Abekas A60 FTP (a60)
Name (abekas.anim:marc): foo
230 User OK
ftp> bin
200 TYPE OK
ftp> get 10.yuv
200 PORT spec accepted : host 192.4.1.1 port 1030
150 OK here goes
226 File Transfer OK
local: 10.yuv remote: 10.yuv
699840 bytes received in 3.4 seconds (2e+02 Kbytes/s)
ftp> quit
221 Closing control connection
(19:50) marc at Cactus:~% ls -l 10.yuv
 696 -rw-r--r--  1 marc       699840 Apr  7 19:50 10.yuv
(19:51) marc at Cactus:~% /local/pbmplus/yuvtoppm 720 486 < 10.yuv >10.ppm

If you have any other questions, feel free to email.

-Marc.

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