Less than 12 Hours for a new Bounty to Toast all other bounty's

[KimmoK]

Video Toaster (12 letters).
?- port to x1000 with xcore replacing the VT HW
?- VT HW implementation in SW emulation
?- low cost VT HW reimplementation for xorro slot
?- bounty to finance VT5 porting
?- support for TCXD850 and/or XD300


btw. when is the end of the 12 hour timer? Two more weeks (tm)?
The standby youtube video is now 17 hours old?

[KimmoK]

Haha, two more weeks not this time. While you were not 100% correct you did get most of it right so the backer of the bounty will add $100 on your behalf. Yes, that's right if this bounty fails you will get $200 back December 2012.

WOW! thanks!
( I was going to suggest also the FPGA route instead of xcore, but I thought it would be too far fetched. ;-) )

btw.
Any clue about: Is the SAM's FPGA + expansion connector enough for VT HW re-implementation?

btw2. Is xcore allowed to be used instead of a FPGA? (in my imagination VT HW would be far more easy to do with xcore than with FPGA)

[KimmoK]

Is the FAQ / more details available yet?

@Piru

Care to elaborate why not?
Because of the bandwidth limits of XS1 xcore chips?

XS2 should be out "soon" I think (if not already), with PCIe bandwidth.


other than that...
I think if FPGA use is mandatory, it limits things to some VHDL specialists.
- original VT creators could most likely redo it (for classics, but the challenge to adapt it to NG HW without Open VT port is big)
- minimig creators might be able to add VT functionality to minimig "code" for a very large FPGA (then the original VT SW might run without porting, but it would not give that much for NG HW users)
- Natami guys could implement VT as a standard Natami AA+ chipset feature. ;-P

[KimmoK]

@Boot_WB

Valid points.
Except, I think there is also the need for realtime capabilities, even though the non-linear side has more uses and users.


Other than that... For video editing.
1) we need video editor SW for modern AmigaOS flavours
(any is better than none at all, blender exist, but I think it's not too user friendly etc.)
2) we need HW to get video in /out or drivers for existing HW
(old VT HW + improvements is only one option, easier possibilities might exist)
3) Port of the latest VT is better than port of the old one
....