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From: boulard@ircam.fr (Arnauld Boulard)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Audiomedia II card
Date: 24 Dec 92 17:15:28 GMT
Organization: Inst. de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique, Paris

I would like to use Digidesign's Audiomedia II card with Macromind Director.
The XFCN SoundAccess provided with the first version of the Audiomedia card
doesn't work at all with the new one. Digidesign is working on sound-driver
as a QuickTime extension, but it isn't ready yet. 
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: apeltone@smtplink.oulu.fi (Antti Peltonen)
Subject: Where to find AVI-"movies"?
Organization: ATK-keskus
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 12:46:20 GMT

Hello,

I would like to test a new Windows Mediaplayer for
(Video Windows ?) *.AVI -"movies", but i don't have any.

Any FTP-servers for videos?

-Antti-
From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Fundamental Frequencies of Musical Notes
Date: 3 Jan 93 23:02:19 GMT
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam

In article <1i50piINNl3s@golem.wcc.govt.nz> ngan_m@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
 > In article <1993Jan1.104912.46019@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, rsl11@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
 > >	I would like to know what the fundamental frequencies of the musica
 > >notes are if someone is aware of them. Tha is what frequencies do they
 > >correspond to the notes
 > >
 > >C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C
 > >
 > The frequency of A above middle C is 440hz, semitone is a factor of 2^(1/12) 
 > higher/lower, so A# is about 466.1638 hz and G# is about 415.3047hz. 
 > As there are 12 semitones in an octave, the A in the octave above is 880hz.
 > 
Alas, this is only a very small part of the story.  It entirely depends on
the kind of music you want to play!

The frequency of A' at 440 is currently indeed standard, but for older music
you would like to have a lower pitch.  In 1858 A' was standardized at 435 Hz;
put a bit higher after the second world war.  Before 1858 there were different
pitches in use (excuse the English, it is only a translation): Chamber pitch
(C ~ current B), Choral pitch (C ~ current C#) and Cornet pitch (C ~ D).

Further, the relative frequencies as given above are first used by Bach in
his 'Wohltemperiertes Klavier'.  Currently keyboard instruments generally
use these (except for the carillon).  An older list of relative frequencies is:
	C   D   E   F   G   A   B   C
	24  27  30  32  36  40  45  48
(multiply by 110 to get the current pitch).  This can be found from the
chord do-mi-sol: 4:5:6, which gives C:E:G = 24:30:36 amongst others.  By
extension median tones are found but the frequency you find depends on the
way you look for it!  Other methods are the Pythagorean one, methods by
Kirnberger, Euler, Huygens, Mercator and Haba amongst others.  When playing
old music you are well advised to learn the method used by the composer.
-- 
dik t. winter, cwi, kruislaan 413, 1098 sj  amsterdam, nederland
home: bovenover 215, 1025 jn  amsterdam, nederland; e-mail: dik@cwi.nl
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: phil@BofA.com (Phil Schlesinger)
Subject: Request for FAQ, Please
Organization: Bank of America, Capital Products, RMTG #5906
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 21:49:07 GMT


Will someone please email me the FAQ for this newsgroup?

Thanks
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia,alt.cd-rom
From: miller%defun.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Cliff Miller)
Subject: Educational Gameland CD-ROM
Date: 29 Dec 92 17:36:45 MST
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept

            Educational Gameland CD-ROM Project

We are a small group of graduate students at the University of Utah,
working on a few projects to learn some new skills (and maybe help
subsidize our student loans at the same time).  We've just recently
made a CD-ROM for the PC, called 'Educational Gameland', which has a
variety of learning-oriented shareware games and programs (over 100
games and 1000 files).

The programs on the CD are divided into directories by topic:

  Geograph: programs for learning US and world geography
  Grabbag:  a miscellany (typing, telling time, memory games, etc.)
  Language: basic language tutors for French, Spanish and Latin
  Math:     several math games for add, sub, mult, div
  Music:    programs to help learn notes
  Spelling: several spelling games for different levels
  Storybk:  2 Hans Christian Andersen stories with sound recordings
  Teacher:  programs for teachers (gradebooks, quiz makers, crossword
            puzzle makers, computer glossary, etc)
  Toddler:  programs for very small kids (shapes, sounds, letters, etc.)
  Wordgame: crosswords, cryptograms, etc.

We're hoping this CD will be useful in classrooms and at home, for
helping kids to learn some basic skills and have some fun in the
process.  We are quite happy with how the disc turned out as a whole,
and we're offering it to the public for a nominal fee so it will be
accessible to schools and to families with young kids.

If you have any suggestions, or if you want some information about
what we're doing or how to get a copy of the CD, please give us a call
or send us a message at CompuServe.  (We've set up a company in our
basement, called Pacific HiTech.)

Cliff and Randy

   email   71175.3152@CompuServe.com
   tel.    800-765-8369
           801-278-2042
   fax     801-278-2666
From: rsl11@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Fundamental Frequencies of Musical Notes
Date: 1 Jan 93 10:49:12 CST
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

Hello there,

	I would like to know what the fundamental frequencies of the musica
notes are if someone is aware of them. Tha is what frequencies do they
correspond to the notes

do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, do.
or
C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C

	I would appreciate any relevant response.

Internet Address:christos@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
From: raj@phys.ksu.edu (S. Raj Chaudhury)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Anyone using the VideoBlaster?
Date: 23 Dec 1992 03:04:45 GMT
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: bohr.phys.ksu.edu
Summary: need hard facts on videoblaster usage
Keywords: videoblaster, video, capture, frames

Is anyone actually using the VideoBlaster from Creative Labs? I have
heard much discussion about the 15MB RAM limit thing, but none of the
posters seemed to be actual users of the product.

My questions: Does it do 30 frames per second throughput?
Can it control an external video source i.e. pause on frame of a VCR?
Does it capture an image while external video is playing or paused?

Has anyone worked with Video For Windows and VideoBlaster together?

Thanks for any and all help:


--
S. Raj Chaudhury			|
Dept. of Physics    			|  raj@phys.ksu.edu
Kansas State University			|
Manhattan, KS 66506			|
From: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Video (from hard disk) to screen
Date: 22 Dec 92 16:43:53 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Taniwha Systems Design

In article <1gr5taINNrr4@fido.asd.sgi.com> grege@chopin.asd.sgi.com (Greg Estes) writes:
>In article <1338@taniwha.UUCP>, paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell) writes:
>|> In article <SUHONEN.92Dec7104750@jalka.jyu.fi> suhonen@jalka.jyu.fi (Timo Suhonen) writes:

>|> >I'm looking for a way to pack digitized video frames to hard disk and
>|> >further to show those packed files on screen (several pictures in second).
>|> 
>|> Buy a SuperMac 'Digital Film' board for a Macintosh (and get a fast CPU and
>
>As an aside, an SGI Crimson (not a 310) VGX can run ~30FPS full resolution
>uncompressed video from memory. So, if you can store the images in memory
>instead of a disk, upgrading from a 310GTX to a Crimson/VGX may be a better
>use of your money than starting all over on the Mac and going the JPEG path.
>This would also allow you to take better advantage of your VideoLab board,
>since the VGX graphics would get you all sorts of fun things, like writing
>moving video into texture memory to map on objects, etc.

My point in recomending he look at a Mac solution is because the enabling 
technology isn't super-fast memory to screen transfer (many Mac accelerated
video cards support off-screen RAM arrays with very fast display rates too),
it's real time compression/decompression of the data as it's read off the disk.

The Digital Film card compresses JPEG frames in real time and the Mac writes
them to disk - memory based capture systems can only capture a few frames
at a time. On playback video data is read from disk and decompressed, again
playback is NOT limited by the number you can fit in memory. Remember an
uncompressed 24-bit 640x480 frame takes 2x640x480 bytes = ~1Mb, a second
takes 30Mb, a minute 1800Mb - when you are editing you throw away more raw
footage than you use ... memory's cheap but not that cheap.

By compressing the data 25x or so you can get the data rates down so that SCSI 
throughput is not a problem (although you probably still need to choose a 
fast disk or disk array with no remapped bad blocks).
-- 
Paul Campbell    UUCP: ..!mtxinu!taniwha!paul     AppleLink: CAMPBELL.P
Use up your Quayle jokes now while they're still good "Quayle for Pres. in '94"
     Q: Why is Marilyn Quayle like Marion Barry?
     A: They both suck a little dope.
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: joe@solomon.technet.sg (Joseph Doo)
Subject: FAQ request
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 14:16:22 GMT

Is there a FAQ available?
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: jonathan@author.ecn.purdue.edu (Jonathan L Neuenschwander)
Subject: Tandy's new multimedia machine
Summary: Does their VIS box run Windows?
Keywords: VIS, Windows?
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: 30 Dec 92 08:12:11 GMT


I've been hearing for sometime about Tandy's new multimedia box, that it
would run a simplified version of Windows that would be capable of running
MPC CDs.  I glanced one over today, and it looks to me like it runs software
that, well, maybe not exactly propietary, but it doesn't look like it would
be runnable elsewhere, nor does it look like it can run MPC stuff.  

So does anyone know what the deal with this is?

Jonathan



--
___ |Jonathan      |Internet:jonathan@mentor.cc.purdue.edu|Whom computers
|__||Neuenschwander|NeXTmail:buzz@symphony.cc.purdue.edu  |would destroy, they
|   |              |America Online:Buzz Lee               |must first drive mad
 
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: troyf@microware.com (Troy Frericks)
Subject: Full motion capture and encodeing in mpeg format
Keywords: PC hurricane huricane mac tga xing 
Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Iowa
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:03:51 GMT

My previous post succeeded in finding out some information about
PC Hurricane.  It is a video capture board that can capture
(into 32M ram) approx 16 seconds.  Stores in RAM as 16 bit TGA.
Using "Xing Technology" software mpeg encoder, it appears to
take about 5 minutes to capture and encode a 16 second movie,
for a ratio of about 18:1 (18 hours to capture/encode 1 hour of
full motion video).

It appears that there currently is NOT an inexpensive integrated
video capture and mpeg encoder available?

Does anyone have a list of 24 bit color capture boards for
PC or MAC that capture in real time (ie capture a five second
movie in five seconds!).  Appears that currently mpeg encoding
would have to be a seperate process.?

Questions for self, not the company I work for.

-
Troy Frericks                      Internet: troyf@MICROWARE.COM
Microware Systems Corporation          UUCP: uunet!mcrware!troyf
1900 NW 114th St                      Phone: (515)224-1929
Des Moines, IA 50325-7077               Fax: (515)224-1352




Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: sjk@netcom.com (Shel Kaphan)
Subject: some new video converters
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 02:20:22 GMT


Here is some information about some new video products from a new company
in Mountain View called Gossett Graphics. 

The products are video signal converters which convert between NTSC
and S-Video.  According to their product literature:

N2S - NTSC to S-video Converter
	- High-qality composite to component (S-video, Y/C 3.58) conversion
	- Effective "dot-crawl" suppression on vertical and horizontal
	  color borders
	- Very low generation loss

S2N - S-Video to NTSC Converter
	- High-qality component (S-video, Y/C 3.58) to composite conversion
	- Exactly complementary to the N2S
	
Q2N - S-Video to NTSC Converter
    Creates a high-quality NTSC signal from a low-quality Y-C source, such as
    computer-generated S-video.
	- High-qality component (S-video, Y/C 3.58) to composite conversion
	- Effective "dot-crawl" and "rainbowing" suppression on color borders
	- Very low generation loss

All the above:
	- Full video bandwidth to 6 MHz
	- 400+ line resolution both horizontally and vertically
	- Numerically precise digital filtering for optimum linear color 
	  separation
	- High quality ADC and DACs -- no digital artifacts such as Mach
	  banding.
	- Low color noise -- filters suppress rather than exaggerate
	  color noise
	- Vertical and horizontal alignment between luma and chroma

All these products are in standard rack-mount packaging, and simply
have one input and one output and no other controls.

Contact info:
	Gossett Graphics
	1169 Burgoyne Ave., Mountain View, CA 94043
	Tel/Fax: (415) 968-4704


Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: walter@optimla.aimla.com (Walter Hunt)
Subject: Re: PHILLIPS CDI Information?
Organization: OptImage Interactive Services Co., L.P.
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:17:10 GMT


In article <1992Dec22.101147.9560@iscsvax.uni.edu>, bartusek@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
|> Is anyone working with Phillips CDI & their authoring system, that just came
|> out for consumer use in October?  I am curious about the use of full screen/
|> full motion video on CDI. I'd like to know if it is available or when it will
|> be available with full motion video?  And I'd like some information on the
|> user-friendly ability of the system.  Thanks!
|> 
|> Marc A. Bartusek
|> University of Northern Iowa
|> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|> 

	Philips CD-I and authoring systems have actually been out and about for
a couple years ( I went to the 3rd CDISC conference last April ). FMV, on the
other hand, is in a "not quite released" state. We currently have one of the 20
or so boards in existance sitting in the back room. It is in target form factor
(to fit into existing consumer players), but obviously needs another revision or
two. After a few plays, it starts to overheat and glitch fairly seriously.

	The board will do full-screen, full-motion video in full color, off of a
CD. This is fairly impressive (to me at least), especially when listening to all
these folks talk about the $15,000 systems they need to run 200x300 sub-windows
at 10fps. (Okay, maybe I exaggerated. So sue me.) Development systems are at a
premium right now, and are priced accordingly (at least the encoding part is). I
believe the systems are all sold through OptImage in Des Moines (1-800-234-5484,
tell I sent you and want a commission). Far as I know, all the boards in
existance and in production at the moment are spoken for, but I could be wrong.

	The software interface is, at best, horrible. Well, maybe I'm
exaggerating again. But, at the least, it is horribly documented. The working
sources we were given are full of magic little bits of assembler, traps to the
OS, unidentified signal handler actions, etc.

	I'm not sure when consumer availability is scheduled for FMV, but I
would imagine it would be sometime 2nd or 3rd Qtr. '93. When titles will be
available is another matter. Oh, and the consumer upgrade is supposed to be
about $100. How they're going to do that when the board we have was supposed to
cost $6000, I don't know . . . .


-- 
Walter Hunt					walter@optimla.optimage.com
OptImage Interactive Services Company, L.P.	walter@optimla.aimla.com
11040 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite #300		netcom!optimla!walter
Los Angeles, Ca. 90025				(310) 445-5718
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Fundamental Frequencies of Musical Notes
From: ngan_m@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Date: 2 Jan 1993 21:17:38 GMT
Reply-To: ngan_m@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Organization: Wellington City Council (Public Access), Wgtn, Nz
NNTP-Posting-Host: kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

In article <1993Jan1.104912.46019@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, rsl11@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>Hello there,
>
>	I would like to know what the fundamental frequencies of the musica
>notes are if someone is aware of them. Tha is what frequencies do they
>correspond to the notes
>
>do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, do.
>or
>C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C
>
>	I would appreciate any relevant response

The frequency of A above middle C is 440hz, semitone is a factor of 2^(1/12)   
higher/lower, so A# is about 466.1638 hz and G# is about 415.3047hz. 
As there are 12 semitones in an octave, the A in the octave above is 880hz.

I hope this information all makes sense.

Milton Ngan
ngan_m@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
   
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: fpolizo@netcom.com (Fred Polizo)
Subject: FAQ?  Listening to audio CD's on FUSION 16 (Sony) drive on DOS
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 23:47:55 GMT

FAQ alert!  :-)

I have an associate who purchased a (MediaVision?) FUSION 16 MM bundle.  
He's having lots of problems getting this bundle to work on his 386-AT.
On top of this, he found out that he can't listen to audio CD's in the 
Sony CD-drive without additional software (he's running under MS-DOS 5.0,
not Windows 3.1).  

I was wondering if anyone out there knew of public domain, shareware, or
commercial software that will allow his CD drive to play audio CD's as a 
background task, when he isn't using the drive for data CD's.  It is okay
if the audio is only available through the earphone jack.

Email would be appreciated, I'll post a summary of the replies if there is
enough interest.

Thanks,
From: grege@chopin.asd.sgi.com (Greg Estes)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Digidesign phone #
Keywords: need number
Date: 28 Dec 92 17:52:03 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: chopin.asd.sgi.com

1-415-327-8811

Greg Estes
Silicon Graphics
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: nwickham@nyx.cs.du.edu (Neal Wickham)
Subject: Re: Tandy's new multimedia machine
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Keywords: VIS, Windows?
Reply-To: nwickham@nyx.UUCP (Neal Wickham)
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 21:21:15 GMT

In article <jonathan.725703131@author.ecn.purdue.edu> jonathan@author.ecn.purdue.edu (Jonathan L Neuenschwander) writes:
>
>I've been hearing for sometime about Tandy's new multimedia box, that it
>would run a simplified version of Windows that would be capable of running
>MPC CDs.  I glanced one over today, and it looks to me like it runs software
>that, well, maybe not exactly propietary, but it doesn't look like it would
>be runnable elsewhere, nor does it look like it can run MPC stuff.  
>
>So does anyone know what the deal with this is?
>
>Jonathan
>
>

I think they have two seperate systems.  One is VIS which is like a CD-I
or CDTV player.  The other is the "Sensation" which is a 486sx with MPC.
I think the Sensation is just Windows and MPC.  VIS probably has its own
OS, though I haven't heard much about it.  VIS is meant to be displayed
on a TV and is operated through a remote like CD-I or CDTV.


                                    NCW
From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: PHILLIPS CDI Information?
Date: 24 Dec 92 13:23:37 +1300
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

In article <Bzq5GM.57p@optimla.aimla.com>, walter@optimla.aimla.com (Walter Hunt) writes:
>
> 	The board will do full-screen, full-motion video in full color, off of a
> CD.

Any comments on subjective quality? Would you compare it to VHS? Broadcast?
S-VHS?

> This is fairly impressive (to me at least), especially when listening to all
> these folks talk about the $15,000 systems they need to run 200x300 sub-windows
> at 10fps.

No, those are just the X-Windows-based systems. :-)

Lawrence D'Oliveiro                       fone: +64-7-856-2889
Computer Services Dept                     fax: +64-7-838-4066
University of Waikato            electric mail: ldo@waikato.ac.nz
Hamilton, New Zealand    37^ 47' 26" S, 175^ 19' 7" E, GMT+13:00
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From: malc@equinox.unr.edu (Malcolm Carlock)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia,comp.dcom.lans.fddi
Subject: Networked videodisks?
Date: 24 Dec 92 02:47:02 GMT
Followup-To: comp.multimedia
Organization: University of Nevada, Reno  Campus Computing Services

Does anyone know if there are such things as networked videodisks?  I.e.,
a technology that would allow one multisession videodisk device to live
on a server, with multiple client workstations able to obtain full-motion
video, or something like it, via a network.

"Ideally", the workstations in such a scenario would be PC's (potentially
relatively cheap) connected to some kind of fast Unix server via a fiber
net or something equally fast.  Hopefully the fiber net could be gatewayed
to nearby TCP/IP networks, to allow basic TCP/IP connectivity to/from the
PC's and server, even if the (theoretical) specialized video traffic would
be restricted to the local fiber net.

All of this presumes, of course that 1) networked videodisk technology
is available, 2) that the server can pump real-time video traffic of
some sort onto the fiber at sufficient data rates, and 3) that suitable
fiber network cards and software are available for the PC's and the server.

If anyone has pointers to any of the technology described above, I'd
be most grateful for any info.

Regards,
-- 

Malcolm L. Carlock                      Internet:  malc@unr.edu
                                        UUCP:      unr!malc
                                        BITNET:    malc@equinox