IEEE 1394

Post by **jedi knight** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 3:25 pm

Just thought you might like to know that Asustek are currently working on an advanced IEEE 1394 Bus PCI Card (Fire Wire), which will allow for data transfer up to 5 times faster than normal Fire Wire cards. This will be a great help for streaming film onto pc's for editing. It should be out by April 2005

Post by **christoph** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 4:26 pm

jedi knight wrote:Just thought you might like to know that Asustek are currently working on an advanced IEEE 1394 Bus PCI Card (Fire Wire), which will allow for data transfer up to 5 times faster than normal Fire Wire cards. This will be a great help for streaming film onto pc's for editing. It should be out by April 2005

well, normal firewire (IEEE1394a) can transfer up to 400mbit/sec (about 50mb/s) and the standard already adopted by apple (IEEE1394b) handles 800mbit/sec (and scales up to 3200mbit/sec)...

however this is pretty much a non-issue for most users, since typical video transfers through firewire are in a DV codec which only needs 3.7MB/sec (plus a small overhead).
even uncompressed standard definition video will nicely fit through an old-school FW connection (heck you can even do HD to some extend), although that not many hard drives will be able to cope with the data rate in non-raid configuration.

so, to sum it up, nice to know that the computer world is making advances (kinda surprising, no? ;) but it's not really going to be "a big help" for most people working with video until HD becomes standard.

++ christoph ++

Post by **jedi knight** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:10 pm

true, but its nice to know it'll be there for the future

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