Analysis of Computer Hardware Affecting Video Transmission via IEEE 1394a connection
This addresses a technical issue for biomechanics researchers analyzing athlete performance via video streaming, but appears incremental as it focuses on analyzing hardware effects without proposing a new solution.
The paper tackled the problem of dropped video fields when streaming 60 de-interlaced fields per second digital uncompressed video via IEEE 1394a connections, which prevents successful storage and analysis, especially with multiple sources, but did not report specific results or numbers.
When 60 de-interlaced fields per second digital uncompressed video is streamed to a computer, some video fields are lost and not able to be stored on a computer s hard drive successfully. Additionally, this problem amplifies once multiple video sources are deployed. If it is possible to stream digital uncompressed video without dropped video fields, then a sophisticated computer analysis of the transmitted via IEEE 1394a connection video is possible. Such process is used in biomechanics when it is important to analyze athletes performance via streaming digital uncompressed video to a computer and then analyzing it. If a loss of video fields occurs, then a quality analysis of video is not possible.