COMPAT.TXT - What's Compatible with CU-SeeMe for Windows, System Requirements:

   Your Windows PC itself
   Video capture cards (optional)
   Winsock Stacks
   Sound cards
                                 4-26-95  Richard Kennerly rbk1@cornell.edu
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Your Windows PC itself

System Requirements:

For receive-only:

1.      386SX processor or higher.
2.      Windows 3.1 running in Enhanced Mode.
3.      Windows Sockets compliant TCP/IP stack.  See below.
4.      A 256 color (8 bit) video driver at any resolution 
        (640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, or higher). 


To send video as well as receive:

1.      386DX processor or higher. 
2.      Windows 3.1 running in Enhanced Mode.
3.      Windows Sockets compliant TCP/IP stack.  See below.
4.      A 256 color (8 bit) video driver at any resolution 
        (640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, or higher). 
5.      Video capture board that supports Microsoft Video For Windows.  See
        below
6.      A video camera to plug into the video capture board.



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Folks, here's my latest list of video capture boards that work with
CU-SEEMe for Windows.  Thanks to those to posted and replied by emails.
If you have tested a board that work with CU-SEEme and it's not on this
list, please email me with your information.  I'll try to periodically post
this information.

The List is divided in four sections:

1.  List of Video Capture Boards that work with CU-SEEMe
2.  List of Video Capture Boards that DOES NOT work with CU-SEEme
3.  List of Untested Boards
4.  List of Video Board Manufacturers contact addresses.



1. List of Video Capture Boards that work with CU-SEEMe for Windows.
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Product:      Video Spigot (Discontinue)     
Confirmed by: Rich Kennerly <rbk1@cornell.edu>
Made by:      Creative Labs
List Price:   unknown
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Product:      Video Blaster FS200            
Confirmed by: Bennett Frankel <drbf@cais.cais.com>
Made by:      Creative Labs
List Price:   349.46 at Computer City.
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Product:      Video Blaster SE100 (new model supposingly to replace FS200)
Confirmed by: Gary <ACCSYS@cais.cais.com>, Rich Kennerly <rbk1@cornell.edu>
Made by:      Creative Labs
Software incl:Aldus Photostyler, HSD Digital Morph, and Aymetrix Digital
              Video Producer
List Price:   $379 (Stree Price $225.00)
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Product:      ComputerEyes RT         
Confirmed by: Rich Kennerly <rbk1@cornell.edu>
Made by:      Digital Vision
List Price:   $399
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Product:      ComputerEyes 1024
Confirmed by: Rich Kennerly <rbk1@cornell.edu>
Made by:      Digital Vision (with the Dec'94 driver)
List Price:   unknown
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Product:      Screen Machine Classic 
Confirmed by: Rich Kennerly <rbk1@cornell.edu>
Made by:      unknown
List Price:   unknown
Notes:        You must install the Screen Machine version of Video for Windows.
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Product:      miroVideo DC1 TV     
Confirmed by: scr@advge.magwien.gv.at (Erich Schlosser)
Made by:      miro Computer Products
List Price:   $899
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Product:      Reveal tv300                   
Confirmed by: jnguyen@wwa.com (Jack Nguyen), byron@in.net (Byron Thomason)
              arvell@bilbo.pic.net (arvell)
Made by:      Reveal (1-800-473-8325)
List Price:   $219-$275
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Product:      Orchid Vidiola Pro/D
Confirmed by: JPickle@aol.com
Made by:      Orchid Technology
List Price:   $599.54 at Computer City (MSRP: $699)
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Product:      Win/TV Cinema/TV-Celebrity/TV-HighQ     
Confirmed by: dreblow@alf.cns.muskingum.edu, albert@more.net
Made by:      Hauppauge Computer Works
List Price:   Cinema - $349, Celebrity - $449, HighQ - $499
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Product:      Targa Plus (16, 32, 64)
Confirmed by: rcollins@antic.det.mun.ca
Made by:      TrueVision
List Price:   unknown (original costs=$1,500)
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Product:      Movie Blaster
Confirmed by: mcarleer@ulb.ac.be (M. Carleer)
Made by:      unknown German company
List Price:   unknown
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Product:      MediaPro+
Confirmed by: mcarleer@ulb.ac.be (M. Carleer)
Made by:      Rombo (Scottish company)
List Price:   unknown
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Product:      Captivator
Confirmed by: phenry@mailhost.primenet.com (Paul Henry)
Made by:      VideoLogic
List Price:   $349 (Street Price $89.90 - Tiger Software 1-800-888-4437)
Notes:        Bundled software - Video for Windows, MacroMedia Action
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2.  List of Video Capture boards that does NOT work with CU-SEEme

Product:      Intel Smart Video Recorder Pro  
Confirmed by: jasontm@mindspring.com (J. T. Montgomery)
Made by:      Intel Corp.
Problems:     unknown 
List Price:   $449 at Computer City (MSRP: $570)
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Product:      Intel Smart Video Recorder PCVD1000 (not pro)
Confirmed by: priapus@primenet.com (guy cooper)
Made by:      Intel Corp.
Problems:     unknown (CU-SeeMe reports "unsupported mode" on startup, I
              believe this is because the PCVD1000 does not support the 8-bit
              palletized mode required by CU-SeeMe.)
List Price:   Discontinued model (originally sold for $599 at CompUSA)
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Product:      Video Blaster RT300             
Confirmed by: Rich Kennerly <rbk1@cornell.edu>
Made by:      Creative Labs
Problems:     unknown 
List Price:   $499.95
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Product:      SNAPplus VL
Confirmed by: Dan Andersson <dana@me.chalmers.se>
Made by:      Cardinal Technologies
List Price:   $695
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Product:      Pro Movie Studio/Spectrum      
Confirmed by: arvell@bilbo.pic.net (arvell hairston)
Made by:      MediaVision
Problems:     The drivers that came with the card produce "inverse video" 
              in CU-SEEme.  Latest news info is that MediaVision
              will no longer be supporting their video board product line.
              However, there is an email campaign to urge MediaVision to
              continue their support especially making new drivers to 
              support CuSeeMe.  Email to Jim Patton at techmain@mediavis.com
              and tell him, you would to like see ProMovie Studio/Spectrum 
              work with Cu-SeeMe.

List Price:   $99 for PM Studio and $59 for PM Spectrum from Surplus
              Software (1-800-753-7877).
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3. List of untested Video Capture Boards for Windows available in the market.

Product               Company                           MSRP
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WatchIT! Pro          New Media Graphics                $595.00 
Reveal VC500          Reveal                            - unknown -
Video Blaster MP400   Creative Labs                     - unknown -
WaveWatcher TV-II     Aztech International              $429 
Megamotion            Alpha Systems Lab                 $1095
Video Basic           ATI Technologies                  $249
Video-It!             ATI Technologies                  $499
Video Galaxy Gamma    Aztech Labs                       $199
VideoStar Pro         Diamond Multimedia Systems        $529
ComputerEyes/VLB      Digital Vision                    $499
Movie Machine Pro     Fast Electronic U.S.              $999
Picture Perfect Pro   In-Motion                         $699
MovieMan              Logitech                          $299
Marvel II             Matrox                            $795
Marvel                Matrox                            $995
Vidiola               Orchid Technology                 $399
Maxmedia VR           UMAX Technologies                 $299
Maxmedia MR Pro       UMAX Technologies                 $699
VideoPacker Plus      VIC Hi-Tech Corp                  $375
MovieWave Studio      MultiWave Technology              $350

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4. List of Video Boards Manufacturers

AITech International
47971 Fremont Blvd.
Fremont, CA 94538
510-226-8960
Product:  WaveWatcher TV-II

Alpha Systems Labs Inc.
2361 McGaw Ave.
Irvine, CA 92714
800-576-4275
Product: MegaMotion

ATI Technologies
33 Commerce Valley Dr. East
Thornhill, Ontario L3T 7N6
Canada
905-882-2600
Product: Video Basic, Video-IT!

Aztech Labs Inc.
46707 Fremont Blvd.
Fremont, CA 94538
800-886-8859
Product: Video Galaxy Gamma

Cardinal Technologies
1827 Freedom Road
Lancaster, PA 17601
717-293-3000
Product: SNAPplus VL

Creative Labs
1901 McCarthy Blvd.
Milpitas, CA 95035
800-998-5227
Product: Video Blaster FS200, RT300, MP400

Diamond Multimedia Systems
1130 E. Arques Ave.
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
408-736-2000
Product: VideoStar Pro

Digital Vision
270 Bridge St,
Dedham, MA 02026
800-346-0090
Product: Computer Eyes/RT, /VLB

FAST Electronic U.S.
One Twin Dolphin Dr.
Redwood City, CA 94065
415-802-0772
Product: Movie Machine Pro

Hauppauge Computer Works
91 Cabot Ct.
Hauppauge, NY 11788
800-443-1600
Product: Win/TV Cinema, Celebrity and HighQ

In-Motion Technologies Inc.
1940 Colony St.
Mountain View, CA 94043
415-968-6363
Product: Picture Perfect Pro

Intel Corporation
2200 Mission College Blvd.
P.O. Box 58119
Santa Clara, CA 95052-8119
800-538-3373
Product: Intel Smart Video Recorder Pro

Logitech Inc.
6505 Kaiser Dr.
Fremont, CA 94555
800-231-7717
Product: MovieMan

Matrox Graphics Inc.
1055 St. Regis Blvd,
Dorval, Quebec H9P 2T4
Canada.
800-361-1408
Product: Marvel, Marvel II

miro Computer Products
955 Commercial St.
Palo Alto, CA 94303
800-249-6476
Product: miroVIDEO DCI TV

Orchid Technology
45365 Northport Loop West
Fremont, CA 94538
800-767-2443
Product: Vidiola, Vidiola Pro/D

UMAX Technology
3353 Gateway Blvd.
Fremont, CA 94538
800-562-0311
Product: Maxmedia VR, MR Pro

VideoLogic Inc.
1001 Bayhill Drive, Suite 310
San Bruno, Ca 94066
800-494-4938
Product: Captivator

VIC Hi-Tech Corp.
2221 Rosecrans Ave. Suite 237
El Segundo, CA 90245
310-643-5193
Product: VideoPacker Plus

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Albert Foo (albert@more.net)            
Missouri Research and Education Network
University of Missouri - Columbia         

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Winsock Stacks:

The following winsock stacks have been found to work with CU-SeeMe:

* Netmanag Chameleon
* Trumpet 
* FTP Software's PCTCP
* Microsoft's winsock stack

The following winsock stacks have had problems:

* Beame and Whiteside - does not work at all.
* Lan WorkPlace for DOS - works for a few, not most people though; we don't 
  know why yet. 
  
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Sound Cards:

The 'Internal Speaker Driver' will NOT work.  Also, it NEVER will in the 
future for technical reasons.

As far as I know, any sound card system will work with CU-SeeMe.  We only
use the low lever services and don't require anything special of the system.
We use 8 kHz 8-bit format.

However, full duplex audio is desireable so you can speak and listen
simultaneously.  The following cards are full duplex and are known to work
with CU-SeeMe:

* Pro Audio Spectrum
* Gravis Ultrasound
* Turtle Beach Tropez 
* Logitech MovieMan system