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Support This Site

I work on this site in my off hours. Please help me to push aside my day job and work on it more by supporting the site in one of these ways:

donate now   
Use your credit card or PayPal to donate in support of the site.

get anything from amazon.com
Use this link to Amazon—you pay the same, I get 4%.

get my thai dictionary app
Learn Thai with my Talking Thai-English-Thai Dictionary app: iOS, Android, Windows.

get my thai phrasebook app
Experience Thailand richly with my Talking Thai-English-Thai Phrasebook app.

get my chinese phrasebook app
Visit China easily with my Talking Chinese-English-Chinese Phrasebook app.

get thailand fever
I co-authored this bilingual cultural guide to Thai-Western romantic relationships.

Note: Updated Lurker's Guide available (but not this page!)

This page belongs to the old 1990s SGI Lurker's Guide. As of 2008, several of the Lurker's Guide pages have been updated for HDTV and for modern OS platforms like Windows and Mac. This particular page is not one of those, but you can see what new stuff is available here. Thanks!

What Are the SGI Video Devices?

The video and compression devices we may mention in the lurker's guide are:

• vino: "Video In No Out." Built-in video inputs shipped with every Indy.
• ev1: Video board architecture used for these products:
  • Indigo Video
  • Indy Video
  • Indy Video 601
  • Indigo2 Video
  • Galileo Video
  • Indigo2 Video for Impact (not Impact Video for Indigo2)
  For more information, see ev1 and cosmo1.
• cosmo1: Compression board architecture used for these products:
  • Cosmo Compress for Indigo
  • Cosmo Compress for Indy
  • Cosmo Compress for Indigo2
  For more information, see ev1 and cosmo1.
• ev3: Name used only in the Lurker's Guide to describe these video products:
  • Impact Video For Indigo2 (not Indigo2 Video for Impact)
  • Octane Digital Video
  For more information, see ev3 and cosmo2.
• cosmo2: Compression board architecture used for these products:
  • Impact Compression For Indigo2
  • Octane Compression
  For more information, see ev3 and cosmo2.
• sirius: The Sirius Video option supported on Onyx and Challenge machines.
• mvp: Built-in video input and output for the O2 workstation. Also called "O2 Video." For more information, see Notes on Video Input for O2 Systems (mvp).
• divo: Onyx2/Origin video product to replace Sirius.

The Lurker's Guide currently does not discuss Octane Personal Video, a lower cost video option for Octane.