Technical Information; Global Information; Grab Information - Matrox Meteor Installation And Hardware Reference

44 Appendix B: Technical information

Technical information

This appendix contains information that might be useful when
installing your Matrox Meteor board.

Global information

System requirements: A PC with a PCI bus and a Pentium
processor or better. When running Windows 95, 16 MBytes
of memory; when running Windows NT 4.0, 24 MBytes of
memory; when running DOS, 4 MBytes of memory.
Operating systems: Windows NT 4.0, Windows 95, or
Rational DOS4GW 32-bit DOS extender.
Technical features:
Captures and transfers full-resolution, full-frame NTSC or
PAL video input in real-time.
Allows live display with a Matrox MGA display board (for
example, Matrox Millennium-II or Matrox Mystique) or
any other VGA that supports fast linear memory accesses.
Allows video to be scaled down to any size, without missing
any frames, while providing real-time transfers to an MGA
display board.
Accepts external trigger input (Matrox Meteor/RGB only).
Software programmable reference levels.
Multiple Meteor boards can be used in a PC.

Grab information

Matrox Meteor captures standard color and monochrome
video:
Standard monochrome: RS-170 (at 640 x 480) and CCIR
(at 768 x 576).
Standard color: NTSC (at 640 x 480), PAL (at 768 x 576),
and SECAM (at 768 x 576).
Composite or Y/C (S-Video: S-VHS, Hi8).
Matrox Meteor/RGB captures standard monochrome and
color video (see above), as well as composite RGB color.