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Finding the hacked 8600 video capture; from German hacker?

 Need help finding the driver/hack to enable a powermac 8600 to capture video at higher fps: think it was 30fps at I believe it was 640x480? I remember a german person hacked a file or something to enable what I previously mentioned. If someone know what I'm talking about and can help me find it I would appreciate it. I have a aftermarket scsi card with a 160gb scsi drive and 4mb vram;with a radeon 7000 pci card with dvi to help. Thanks

 
I was under the impression that the onboard capture on the 7600/8600 was already at 30 fps (60 fields per second)/640x480 capture.

 
The chip used is a Philips SAA7xxx series if I recall. That chip should have no problem capturing 720x480/576 at 29.97/25fps (NTSC/PAL). Apple's software may limit it to lower resolutions though. Not surprising as a stock PPC from that era doesn't have a fast enough CPU or storage subsystem to handle full frame SD video.

 
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