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3 Sep 2024 13:13:51 EDT (-0400)
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From: Warp
Date: 25 Jan 2011 10:42:30
Message: <4d3eef66@news.povray.org>
Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Spec claims it comes with a 4 GB flash card, but that's going to fill in 
> seconds I would imagine.

  A 4GB DVD can contain at least an hour of decent-quality video. And that's
just using MPEG-2. (Granted, HD video has a higher resolution, but with MPEG
the bitrate does not scale linearly with the resolution.)

> I was under the impression that the compression algorithm remains the 
> same regardless of what bitrate you select.

  MPEG-4 is a bit more complicated than that. It's not like it's JPEG.

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                                                          - Warp


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