The video input to the SunVideo Plus card can be either National Television System Committee (NTSC) or Phase Alternation Line (PAL) format, and composite or S-Video video sources. Decompressed and local video can transfer across the PCI-bus to be displayed on your workstation. Audio compression is performed by the onboard DSP.
A high-speed interface to the host bus provides multiple DMA/IO channels. These channels provide flow-through for:
Output from a compressed video/audio bitstream
Output from decompressed video
Output from local uncompressed video