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From: kjellr@sofus.dhhalden.no (Kjell Are Refsvik)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Looking for Sony U-Matic XCMDs
Date: 21 Jul 92 11:50:20 GMT
Organization: Ostfold Regional College

Hi,

Would be ever so grateful if someone could point me in the direction of where 
I could find XCMDs for Mac to control a Sony U-matic VCR.

Thanks,

Kjell Are Refsvik
Research Assistant
Ostfold Regional College
Norway
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: mann@intacc.uucp (Jeff Mann)
Subject: Re: I was wrong : QuickTime - 30 fps
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 20:07:07 GMT
Organization: Inter/Access' Matrix BBS
Keywords: quicktime video

In article <Br5t1A.J03@news.cso.uiuc.edu> ct54143@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Chris Trimble) writes:
>Well, in my post a few days ago, I stated that there was no way to do real-
>time video with QuickTime. It turns out that there actually is, but I am
>not sure of the availability of this product yet. Please call RasterOps
>for more information at 1-800-SAY-COLOR.
>
>The board that can do it (the only one as far as I know) is the RasterOps
>24STV Video Adapter (Nu-Bus). It will do 640x480 (NTSC) 30 fps video, when
>(if they don't already) have the version out that has their proprietary
>compression chip on it. It also does audio digitizing (44.8khz "CD Quality" -
>at least, so they claim).

Sorry, wrong again. The RasterOps QuikPak is a daughterboard for the 24STV, i.e.
there is not a version of the 24STV with "the chip" on it. I don't know what
the technology is, I just know it isn't. I mean, it doesn't exist. RasterOps
has been promising to ship this product for, oh, a couple of years now. When
you call, they say "it'll be out in about four months, for sure". Four months
later they say the same thing. I just called them a minute ago; they said
"oh, sometime in the fall".

There is a version of the 24STV which does audio sampling called "MediaTime".
I believe the sampler is compatible with DigiDesigns AudioMedia board, and
it is CD quality, with analog i/o.

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From: frank@digi.prz.tu-berlin.de (Frank Ruge)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: high quality audio solutions for Sun ?
Date: 30 Jul 92 19:07:50 GMT
Organization: TU-Berlin TUBKOM, Germany


I'm looking for better quality audio solutions than the standard
builtin facilities for Sun workstations. Does anyone know any
VME or SBUS based AD/DA converters with samplerates >= 40kHz 
and 16bit quantization ?
Has anyone gained experiences with these products. What's the impact
on bus performance ? 

Any hints are welcome

	Frank Ruge

Technical University of Berlin, TUBKOM
Voice: +49 30 31425985
Email: frank(at)prz.tu-berlin.dbp.de
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From: bartb@ogicse.cse.ogi.edu (Bart Butell)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Subject: Image file search/select
Keywords: MS-Windows, Visual Basic, Imaging
Date: 24 Jul 92 02:34:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: ogicse.40480
Distribution: world
Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute (formerly OGC), Beaverton, OR


I am looking for people to survey about a Visual Basic add-on tool that
would aid in searching for, selecting and manipulating image files.  If
you are working on VB applications that need to work with image files and
would like to give me input on needs, please send me return mail and I
will get back to you directly.  I would be glad to talk by phone, if you
give me a telephone number.

I need to move on this rapidly, so the sooner I hear the better.  If we
move ahead with development, we will be needing Beta sites, as well.

Bart Butell
5355 SE 34th Ave.
Portland, OR 97202

bartb@cse.ogi.edu
From: jmolmo@iris-dcp.es
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Switching channels with SB and MCI
Date: 30 Jul 92 11:28:36 +0100
Organization: REDIRIS, Red Nacional de I+D


	We cannot switch between Sound-Blaster Pro Audio inputs under MDK with
MCI commands. Does anybody know which MCI commands and devices should be used
for this purpose?



Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: jvs@lester.appstate.edu (John V. Scalco)
Subject: FOR SALE: CD-ROM (for PC) & ProAudio Board...
Organization: Appalachian State University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 20:29:15 GMT


	hello, a friend of mine is selling the following equipment:

	==============================================================
	* Sony Laser Library (sony cdu 7205 external CD-ROM Drive
		(340ms , 150 Kbs ); Interface, w/5 CD-ROMS

	* Proaudio spectrum Plus (with software)  [board for PC ]
		( with software -Kings Quest) 

		Both have hardly been used 

	Will Sell Both for: $850.00
	==============================================================
	  mail me here, and I will pass it to my friend.

	  include phone number, and he will call you..

		sincerly,
			john v. scalco
From: alves@calvin.usc.edu (William Alves)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: MPEG encoding time
Date: 23 Jul 1992 18:02:18 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: calvin.usc.edu

Does anyone with experience in MPEG have a feeling for how long it takes
to encode full-motion, full-screen video, with enough compression to
play off a CD-ROM (c. 150k/sec)? I have heard that it would take even
a high-end personal computer a tremendous amount of time, but I have
no firm numbers. Also, does anyone know of a company working on a
QuickTime-compatible MPEG card for the Mac? Thanks.

Bill Alves
From: rjn@snowbird.LABS.TEK.COM (Jim Nusbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Which format for MPEG? (NTSC or CCIR601) (was Digital Video)
Date: 23 Jul 92 17:50:52 GMT
Organization: STRL, Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton OR

In article <1992Jul23.072020.17087@u.washington.edu> dong@milton.u.washington.edu (Dong-Lok Kim) writes:
>
>Well, the number 704 was actually derived from the follwing reasoning:

[ correct description of MPEG SIF generation deleted ]

>
>This is illustrated in the MPEG document.
>
>Dong-Lok Kim
>-- 


Dong-Lok is of course right.  I got this started by describing the formats
accepted by two hardware MPEG implementations.  Somehow I forgot I got my
numbers screwed up and worked forward from the 640x480 VGA numbers rather
than the CCIR numbers.  The chipsets I mentioned do indeed take the real
MPEG SIF resolution (352 x 240) and the Px64/JPEG CIF resolution (352 x 288).


--
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[ucbvax,decvax,allegra,uw-beaver,hplabs]!tektronix!strl!rjn
rjn@strl.labs.tek.com
(503) 627-4612
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: wnoguchi@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Warren Noguchi)
Subject: DVI vs. Video Blaster
Organization: University of Hawaii at Manoa
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 18:23:37 GMT

I was wondering if anyone had information regarding the Video Blaster in
comparison to the DVI board. It seems like an alternative but I am not sure
on the capabilities of the Video Blaster. Anyone with information please
email or post. Thanks.

--
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|     University of Hawai'i Social Science Computing Systems       > 
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Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: alves@calvin.usc.edu (William Alves)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: MPEG encoding time
Date: 28 Jul 92 00:00:21 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: calvin.usc.edu

In article <8LE5E6I@zelator.in-berlin.de> leo@zelator.in-berlin.de (Stefan Hartmann) writes:
>In <l6ulkqINNjbu@calvin.usc.edu> alves@calvin.usc.edu (William Alves) writes:

>>Does anyone with experience in MPEG have a feeling for how long it takes
>>to encode full-motion, full-screen video, with enough compression to
>>play off a CD-ROM (c. 150k/sec)?...

>I'm using the Xing Technology MPEG encoder, which works from 320x240
>TGA frames .
>It takes 1.5 second per frame to encode to a MPEG-file on a 
>486 PC (33Mhz) !
>I think this is quite fast and all is done by software only !

Thanks for the reply, but could you answer a couple other things? I'm
not familiar with the Xing Technology encoder, so can you tell me
what kind of compression ratios you're getting? Are there options
to trade off encoding time for higher compression? If so, do you
have a feeling about what the upper end for this compression and
time scale is? Thanks again.

Bill Alves
From: herbi@hpbbi4.BBN.HP.COM (#Herbert Dorer)
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 08:03:02 GMT
Subject: Re: Looking for Shared-X utilities
Organization: Hewlett-Packard GmbH
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia

> I am looking for utilities to allow an X-application to be
> displayed on multiple workstations running X. I would like
> to use this to distribute images to multiple workstations
> in a broadcast mode over ethernet.
> 
> I have heard rumors of such applications existing and 
> would appreciate hearing about them or getting any 
> leads pointing towards them.

If you happen to run an HP 9000 Series  300, 400, or 700 system or an HP
700/RX  terminal  you may want to have a look at an  application  called
SharedX.  It  allows  to  share  any X  application  to one or  multiple
workstations   in  the  net.  No  code  changes  are  necessary  on  the
application  side.  The  sender can only be one of the  above.  Receiver
can be any workstation/X terminal that runs X11R4 or later X servers.

In addition to sharing, SharedX allows input (mouse & keyboard) from the
workstations shared to.  The sender can determine who of he receivers is
allowed to do input to the shared window(s).  Also, a telepointer can be
added to a shared  window  to point  out  e.g.  a  specific  part of the
interface being shared.

Herbert Dorer
Hewlett-Packard GmbH
Technical Marketing Europe
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: gary@concave.cs.wits.ac.za (Gary Taylor)
Subject: MEDIAScript
Organization: Wits Univ. Computer Science Dept.
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 09:00:53 GMT

Does anybody have any information about IBM's MEDIAScript.
All I know about it is that it is an application development environment that uses graphical menus and a symbol like scripting language to develop multimedia application.

Please could you e-mail me at : gary@concave.cs.wits.ac.za
or 
send mail to :
Gary Taylor
Computer Science Department
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg
South Africa


Thanx in advance.
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: smitty@es.com (Maurice Smith)
Subject: Re: Curious: TV in a window...
Reply-To: smitty@dsd.es.com
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, UT
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 15:10:15 GMT

In article <2A7377EE.708F@deneva.sdd.trw.com>, blanford@spf.trw.com (Ronald P. Blanford) writes:
|> Jay Steele writes
|> > As I was leafing through the May issue of Byte magazine  
|> recently,
|> > I saw an add for a board which allowed television signals to  
|> be
|> > displayed on a window. I mentioned to a nearby friend that I 
|> > thought it was pretty interesting, and he abruptly responded
|> > "Why... It serves no practical purpose."
|> > 
|> > Well, my [limited] knowledge of multimedia tells me otherwise. 
|> > What are some of these apparantly non-existant "practical  
|> purposes?"
|> 
|> Well, I can think of two just off the top of my head.
|> 
|> 1. Using serial control of a laserdisk, you can have a  
|> customized, interactive educational game similar to the arcade  
|> ones.
|> 

	Or better yet you can found a company and sell multi-media
	training to large companies for large bucks. (Re: Allen
	Communications).  Video in a window is the keystone, PC
	based training is peanuts without it.  Your friend probably
	thinks babies are of "no practical purpose".

|> 2. With enough processing power (and a 486 has it) you could  
|> inspect and capture significant news stories from CNN.  The  
|> military would have loved that capability to help generate  
|> briefings during the Gulf War.
|> 

-- 
======================================================================
 Maurice Smith                     |" I feel much better now that I've
 smitty@dsd.es.com  (use it!)      |  given up all hope." 
 Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp. | 
 Salt Lake City, Utah              |  #include <standard_disclaimer>


Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: elting@infix.emp.paed.uni-muenchen.de (Andreas Elting)
Subject: DLLs for CNTRL-P interface for a SONY Videorecorder
Organization: University of Munich
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 10:47:01 GMT

Hello out there,

I'm desperately looking for a Windows 3.1 DLL or source code to 
implement the CNTRL-P interface to a SONY video recorder.

We are using Toolbook under WINDOWS 3.1 and want to connect
a videorecorder through the serial port to our PC.

We already got the right cable, but we don't have any 
informations about the CNTRL-P protokoll (control sequences and so on).

Do you have any ideas where to get them?

Thanks in advance,

Andreas

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LMU Munich			FAX-Nr: + 49 89 2180 5255
Institute for 			Voice: + 49 89 2180 5147
Educational Research 		email: 
Germany				 elting@emp.paed.uni-muenchen.de
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From: jstern@garnet.berkeley.edu ()
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Director or Premier??
Date: 29 Jul 1992 00:02:37 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.berkeley.edu

In article <Bs3xIx.C8@solbourne.com> ericr@solbourne.com (Eric Robison) writes:
>I need to buy either Director or Premier RSN.  Anybody out there
>got any good comparisons?  

My first response to your question is that they're very different 
types of products, though there are places where their functionality 
overlaps. Premiere is mostly a QuickTime editing package. Director is 
mostly an animation package. Premiere's strengths are in video 
editing kinds of things: creating transitions between video clips, 
doing special photographic effects with filters, etc.  Director's 
strengths are in creating a multimedia presentation that has lots of 
different objects (which can include QuickTime movies).  .  

Director does have a steeper learning curve than Premiere, but if you 
need to create animations from scratch, you'll have to learn Director 
(or some other animation package). On the other hand, if you've 
already got a set of animations and digital video clips and audio 
tracks and stuff that you want to put together, Premiere is what you 
need. If you know the desktop publishing world at all, a rough 
analogy might be that Director is like FreeHand (for creation) and 
Premiere is like PageMaker (for compilation).  (However, if you need 
to digitize video, Director won't help; I believe that the new Premiere 
will, as long as you get a digitizing board.)

There are a lot of other, more specific differences, but not knowing 
what you want to do, it's hard to make a comparison (apples and 
oranges, y'know?)

Judy Stern
Instructional Technology Program
UC Berkeley
jstern@garnet.berkeley.edu
From: jbowes@news.u.washington.edu (John E. Bowes)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: X/Open Multimedia Std. Info Needed
Keywords: X/Open Multimedia Standards
Date: 30 Jul 92 17:14:08 GMT
Organization: School of Communications, University of Washington

Forgive if this is an old topic, but we've heard that several folks in the
UK are developing a multimedia standard called X/Open.  We don't know if this
is to do with X-windows, but would like to find out just exactly what 
this	apparent standard is. Thanks for any help
J. Bowes
Seattle, WA
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: wnoguchi@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Warren Noguchi)
Subject: Video Blaster vs. DVI
Organization: University of Hawaii at Manoa
 
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 18:18:06 GMT

--
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|     University of Hawai'i Social Science Computing Systems       > 
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From: simonofb@wmavm7.VNET.IBM.COM
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 13:05:06 EDT
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: MM Authoring tools in X windows
Reply-To: simonofb@wmavm7.VNET.IBM.COM
Organization: IBM
News-Software: Usenet 3.0

What Multimedia authoring tools are available for Unix running
X-Windows / Motif?  I would appreciate product name, company name,
and company phone number.  Also if anyone has information about
multimedia authoring tools running under AIX / X-Windows / Motif
I would appreciate that information also.


Robert Simonoff
simonofb@wmavm7.vnet.ibm.com
From: jlombardo@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Inexpensive way to play TV images on Sony 1304?
Date: 30 Jul 92 02:12:23 GMT

I have a Sony 1304 VGA/SVGA monitor.  Is there any way to play regular TV
images on the screen?  I do not wish to have computer images and TV at the same
time, just one or the other.  I would prefer not having to buy a special card
to acheive my result.  Does anyone manufacture an adapter for such an
application?  My monitor does not have any video-in jacks other than the
standard 9-pin plug so the adapter should be an RCA plug to 9-pin type.  Any
help would be appreciated.  Thanks!
-Joe
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From: hongman@cathedral.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (Guo Hongman)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia,alt.binaries.multimedia
Subject: need help on " ACME "
Date: 21 Jul 92 17:15:52 GMT
Followup-To: poster


     I got a program called " ACME " , discription is like following :

*****************************************************************************

The ACME Audio/Video Server and Client Library
.)b
.pp
ACME is a network server for digital audio I/O using the built-in
microphone and speaker on a Sun Sparcstation;
it also has limited support for video output.
ACME clients can play or record several "tracks" simultaneously,
and can specify how these tracks should be synchronized.
Several such applications can run at once, sharing the same devices;
ACME handles the mixing and copying of data.
All data and control are conveyed on TCP connections.

The ACME software is available by anonymous FTP from icsi-ftp.Berkeley.EDU,
in the file "pub/dash/acme.tar.Z".

******************************************************************************

    Does anyone know WHO has compiled " ACME " and made it work ?

    I have some troubles with it .

    I appreciate any information about it .

                Thanks in advance
Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: mramesh@cbnewse.cb.att.com (m.ramesh)
Subject: SB prolog
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 20:01:29 GMT

I amtrying to run a prolog program using SB prolog.  I have some DCG stuff
in it.  I have abunch of files and I concatenate all of them and then compile
it to byte-code, load it and run the program.

When the code tries to parse a sentence it cannot.

But if I remove some files, ie, reduce the code size then it works.

Any solutions to this problem.

Thank you in advance.
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
From: bazell@stsci.edu (David Bazell)
Subject: Training nets using data with error bars
Keywords: training, error bars, real world
Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 12:06:38 GMT


Does anyone have experience with training a net (say backpropagation)
using data that has associated error bars?  This came up while I was
considering using a net to fit some data for interpolation.  I have
used cubic splines to fit the data and was considering backpropagation
or counterpropagation networks.

My data has associated error bars to,so it is not all equally
important.

Someone must have thought about this problem.  Personal experience or
references to the literature would be appreciated.

Thanks

Dave Bazell
bazell@stsci.edu
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3700 San Martin Dr.                 scivax::bazell    (span)
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Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
From: ak45ldp@Texaco.com (Larry D. Pyeatt)
Subject: Re: SImple pattern recognition problem - any answers?
Organization: Texaco
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 19:31:53 GMT

In article <1360@eagle.ukc.ac.uk>, aw3@ukc.ac.uk (Alan Wilson) writes:

In most cases, I would say that 5 examples of each class is not enough
to prove anything.  However, your data MAY indicate that by knowing a 
person's scores on the test you may be able to deduce his classification
as A or B with a high degree of confidence.

Alternately, you may be able to deduce a person's likely responses to the test
questions by knowing whether he is an A or B.  The data that you have seems
to indicate that the classes are nearly linearly separable.  If that is
the case, it would be easy to build a pattern classifier to tell whether
a person is A or B.

Also, you could possible learn to estimate a persons PC2 (or PC1) score
by knowing their PC1 (or PC2) score and whether they are an A or B.

However, I do not think that you have enough data to draw any strong
conclusion.  Get MORE data and TEST for statistical significance!

-- 
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Internet : pyeatt@texaco.com    those of my employer or of anyone
Voice    : (713) 975-4056       that I know of with the possible
                                exception of myself.
From: naik@constellation.rutgers.edu (Devang Naik)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Need e-mail addresses of Igor Aleksander and Stephen Grossberg
Date: 24 Jul 92 16:03:05 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


 	Hi,
	I need the e-mail addresses of Dr. Aleksander in UK and Dr.
	Grossberg  at Boston University. I would appreciate if someone
	could send them to me. Thanks in advance,

	Devang ( naik@discovery.rutgers.edu)
From: sareibi@cheetah.vlsi.waterloo.edu (Shawki Areibi)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Compu Serve
Date: 31 Jul 92 02:52:04 GMT
Organization: University of Waterloo

hi, recently I have heard that a bunch of neural net packages are available
on Compu Serve Network, my question is: is it possible to download software
through the network from Compu Serve Or should I have to dial through the modem?
From: henrik@mpci.llnl.gov (Henrik Klagges)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: How to correctly measure time series generalization (?)
Date: 21 Jul 92 16:46:43 GMT

Suppose a time series is available, from t=0 to t=99. How are these datapoints
to be partitioned into training & test sets ? (It is assumed that a training/
test vector at 't' is made out of (t-k, t-k+1, ..., t) as inputs and (t+1) as
target output).

a) Use 0->X for training, (X+1)->99 for testing;
b) Use n randomly selected t's for training, and the rest for testing.

'a' is straightforward extrapolation, but fails if the time series 'window'
is too small to capture all major cycles in the series (a cycle not visible
from 0-X shows up from X+1 -> 99). This is e.g. likely the case with sunspot
data. If the network's approximation captures the complete problem mechanics,
though, a solution of 'a' works satisfactory for any time 't'.

'b' is a bit of a cheat - it is interpolation. However, for practical purposes
like forecasting only the next ('99+1') sunspot, it may be more reliable than
'a'. 

Comments, please.

Cheers, Henrik

massively parallel group at Lawrence Livermore
IBM Research physics group Munich

--

Cheers, Henrik
MPCI at LLNL
IBM Research