Andrew Burton wrote:
Define a CD with a real video clip. If you could watch
a video with *just* a CD I'd pay handsomely for that CD!
All video is in some format or other (MPEG, FLV etc.) and needs software to decode it. In
the case of YouTube Flash is what is used (also makes saving video's to your computer
harder, but not impossible). Flash can be used for just about anything (games,
video's, music (?) etc.)
What was the first computer to have any type of video? I'm guessing that the Philips
CDi, Panasonic/Goldstar 3DO and Amiga CD32 were some of the first consoles to feature
CD-based video.
Some Megadrive hackers (and former C64 programmers) hacked some carts to include (green)
monochrome video at the start. The awful game Rise Of The Robots on the SNES
(cartridge-based games console) featured video too, albeit a very small size (100x75?).
When I say video clips, I'm thinking 25 FPS (frames per second) or more.
The PC had a good video output with a TARGA frame grabber card, and that was the late
1980's.
That was 512 pixels across NTSC scan rates.
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk