Richard Sloan <rsloan@THEMINDFACTORY.COM> writes:
> Looking for a simple chip to allow me to record video and playback as
> cheap as possible and not be some 3 IC shipset with 100's of pins!
> Standards not important here.  Need something with fair
> compression. Does not need to be killer compression, just decent.

What is the maximum data rate that is decent?  5 Mbps?  10?  20?  50?  100?

Uncompressed digital video is about 216 Mbps:  13.5 MHz sampling
times 2 bytes (luma and chroma) per sample.

If you need under 20 Mbps, the only real solution is an MPEG 2 Codec,
which will be in a package with 240 or more pins, and will need external
SDRAM and video encoder and decoder.

One big problem with using MPEG 2 Codecs is that the vendors will NOT
provide any technical data or sell you any chips unless they believe
you will buy tens of thousands of them.

Unless you're in that category, just by a PC graphics card with video
in and out, and be done with it.

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