Digital Video Editing: SpectSoft Ships RaveHD Open Source Video Disk Recorder | Linux Today

Digital Video Editing: SpectSoft Ships RaveHD Open Source Video Disk Recorder

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 26, 2004

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood
for this link. ]

“SpectSoft, LLC has released the next generation of video disk
recorder software running on Linux. RaveHD is the second generation
of video disk recording software geared towards high end visual
effects and post production workflows. By utilizing an open source
model, the Linux operating system, and commodity PC hardware,
RaveHD allows its users to leverage the entire gamut of Linux based
tools as well as minimizing total cost of ownership.

“RaveHD is data agnostic, in that it scales from standard
definition all the way to dual link (4:4:4 RGB) high definition
video. This is dependent only on the hardware running inside the
PC…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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