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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 09:33:54 EDT
From: <RXF10@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Quicktime and MacroMind Director 3.1
Distribution: world


In article <172oqsINNiq8@fbi-news.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE>,
poswig@jupiter.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (joerg Poswig) says:
>
>I've come across the problem to mix a MM-Director animation with QuickTime
>movies. I'd like to stop the movie while executing to show some explanations
>and then continue it. That works perfectly well. But how do I determine the
>position of a particular frame of the QT movie using lingo-commands ?
>
>Any hints appreciated
>                                        Joerg

    Joerg,

       I haven't found any easy way of determining the exact time of any
    given frame except by plugging in values, playing the movie, and then
    seeing where the QT movie paused.  Heres a script I used to play a Quick
    Time movie in Director 3.1 until it reached a movietime = 950 and
    pauses the movie.

    --- Play Clip
    on playclip
      global qtsprite, qtcastname

      set the movietime of sprite 1 to 0              --rewind movie
      set the movierate of sprite 1 to 1              --play it
      repeat while the movietime of sprite 1 <= 950   --keep checking
         updatestage                                    the frame time
      end repeat
      set the movierate of sprite 1 to 0              --pause movie
    end playclip


  It was only trial and error trying to find a value (ie. 950) which
  corresponded to a point in the movie which I needed a pause.  It wasn't
  too hard, though, just awkward.

  Hope this helps.
                                    Robert Falco
                                    Training & Multimedia Systems
                                    Penn State University
                                    RXF10@PSUVM.PSU.EDU

Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: ross@kaos.ingr.com (Ross Erickson)
Subject: Primer on MM wanted!!
Keywords: multimedia
Reply-To: ross@kaos.b11.ingr.com
Organization: Intergraph Corporation
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 19:35:46 GMT

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Hi,

I'm looking for a short, concise, yet thorough paper or article
written about what multimedia is (or isn't) for professionals totally
new to this new technology.  Can anyone suggest such an article or
white paper?  Please email.
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From: G. Coulter SERC Daresbury.
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: CINIFLEX in the UK?
Date: 17 Aug 92 14:46:47 GMT
Reply-To: G.Coulter@uk.ac.daresbury
Organization: Daresbury Laboratory, UK

Could someone please let me know how I can obtain  the
magazine CINIFLEX in the UK .....

Thanks for any help 


Gaz
From: teoallan@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com (Allan TEO)
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 03:17:06 GMT
Subject: Re: DVI driver for ToolBook
Organization: HP Singapore Notes-Server
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia

Hi ,
  DATALUS offers DVI drivers for OS/2 toolbook and
  Windows 3.1 toolbook

  Tel: 517 347 1333

  Ask Micheal Ezzo or Greg

  Regds
  Allan

Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: mann@intacc.uucp (Jeff Mann)
Subject: Re: any other PC controlled VCR's ?(was NEC PC-VCR)
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 20:45:51 GMT
Organization: Inter/Access' Matrix BBS

In article <1992Aug12.192141.5003@wri.com> perelet@avignon.wri.com (Oleg Perelet) writes:
>Ok, I got 4 replies in a few hours - seems
>like NEC is not a bestest choice. So,
>does anybody knows any other (S)(Hi8) VHS
>models, that can be controlled from computer

I saw a nice new RS-232 controlled deck by Mitsubishi at SIGGRAPH. 
It's S-VHS, and costs somewhere around $3000. It's called the Diamond
something-or-other. The guy who showed it to me is Dan McGinley, senior
sales engineer (sales engineer?) at Mitsubishi, (908) 302-2883. I'd be
interested to know whether this thing can handle single-frame animation,
which I foolishly forgot to ask him...

There is also the Sony VDECK which is actually referred to as a
"video drive". It's computer controllable but can't do single-frame
animation; you have to go up to the 9650 (?) hi-8 deck for that,
which runs about $6000 or so I think.
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Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: root@ictv.com (Operator)
Subject: Animation
Organization: ICTV, Santa Clara, CA (408) 562-9200
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 22:04:46 GMT

Is anyone doing frame by frame animation on a Macintosh platform? If so, is anyone using an Arti to control this process to tape?

I need some information on the Arti, specifically with 24 bit art.

          come one, come all . . .
                 

                       amacker

                      amacker@ictv.com
From: ishikawa@ds5200.personal-media.co.jp (Chiaki Ishikawa)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: PAS16 Multimedia Kit vs PAS16 and NEC CDR-84 CD-ROM kit
Date: 12 Aug 92 10:47:26 GMT
Reply-To: ishikawa@personal-media.co.jp
Organization: Personal Media Corp., Tokyo Japan
In-reply-to: msimmons@ec.uwa.oz.au's message of 11 Aug 92 08:40:34 GMT



:(2) The PAS16 MultiMedia Kit uses a NEC CDR-83J (an OEM version of the CDR-83).
:    To quote PC Magazine March 31 1992 page 46
:    'NEC's latest two Intersect drives (the CDR-73M & CDR-83M) serve as
:    replacements for similar Intersect models - the CDR-73 and CDR-83. Both
:    also spin the disk at twice the traditional rate, but their firmware
:    lacks the optimization needed to exploit the greater transfer rate
:    fully and to best effect. When we last reviewed the CDR-73, for instance,
:    we praised the drive for its top speed but criticized it for its jerky
:    motion-video performance ("CD-ROM Drives:Finally Up to Speed," October
:    29, 1991) '
:    I believe the CDR-73M and the CDR-83M have been revamped and relabeled
:    the CDR-74 and CDR-84 respectively.
:    It appears to me that Media Vision bought up discontinued CDR-83 drives
:    cheap to include in their MultiMedia Kit.

	Is there a possible ROM upgrade for 73J and 83J?
Does anybody know?

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 UUNET: ishikawa@personal-media.co.jp
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia,comp.music,comp.graphics,alt.graphics
From: leo@zelator.in-berlin.de (Stefan Hartmann)
Subject: graphics + sound synchronisation under DOS+win3.1
Organization: Puplic-Access-Xenix-System
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 14:38:19 GMT
Summary: mm
Keywords: mm


Hi,

do you know of any VOC or WAV player under DOS, that can play these
sound files in the background and still allows some graphics program
to run in the foreground ? I'm thinking about a slideshow with VPIC or
another graphics application with scolling fonts
and having a description voice file in
the background.
I currently use VPLAY, which came with my SB-Pro, but there are still
some limits..

Any ideas how to synchronize ? maybe under win3.1 ?

waaplay.zip, the win3.1 animator player only allows me flicks and
still pics, but I want to show also other graphics programs for a
presentation ! (and still it is too slow with big sized SVGA  FLIs)

I can use the SB Pro win3.1 Chatterbox-Wav-player, which plays Wav
after Wav, but there is no synchronizing feature with a DOS-Fullscreen
task or is there any way to get it synchronized ?


I want one scroller demo with a special Voc or WAV sample, then, when
the Voice sample is ended, it should go to the next scroller graphics
demo and start the next sound sample with it.

So I need a background sample player, which gives an Escape command
to the foreground graphics application, when the sound sample is over.
Then the next scroller demo can be started via batch..

Anybody used WINBATCH ? Maybe it would work with this utility ?
Any ideas ?

Any package you could recommend ?

Best regards Stefan Hartmann.

Please email the answer directly to me, cause in this moment I don't
have time to scan the newsgroups.

email to: leo@zelator.in-berlin.de


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From: gary@concave.cs.wits.ac.za (Gary Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Multimedia Group
Date: 14 Aug 92 07:28:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: shannon.1992Aug14.072816.12115
Organization: Wits Univ. Computer Science Dept.


Hi,

I have started a multimedia group in South Africa and we would like to extend it worldwide.  I would like to publish a newsletter from the group, but until now, we have been unable to do so.  The newsletter will reflect the latest developments in multimedia as well as any articles from members of the group.

Any queries that members may have will be listed and attempted to be solved.

If anybody is interested please mail me at the address below, stating your name, position, country of origin and the area of multimedia that you are interested in.

I will then send you further information re costs for postage etc.

MMedia is MMagic.

Gary Taylor

E-Mail : gary@concave.cs.wits.ac.za
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: tsikos@siemens.com. (Constantine J Tsikos)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Ascii to sound
Date: 13 Aug 92 20:15:58 GMT
Organization: Siemens Corp. Res., Inc.

Hi Netters,

I am looking for a Word for Windows 2.0a macro that will
"speak" highlighted text using a SoundBlaster Pro.
I will appreciate any pointers to commercial, shareware,
or freeware.

THX,

Constantine J. Tsikos
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: bart@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Bart Gold)
Subject: Re: Pasting Quicktime movies into Hypercard?
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 15:15:24 GMT

          You need to install an XCMD called 'QTmovie;, which should have
come with your quicktime utilities. 

            Keep in mind that you still need quicktime running on the
machine- hypercard won't do it on its own. 

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Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: poswig@jupiter.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (joerg Poswig)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Pasting Quicktime movies into Hypercard?
Date: 14 Aug 1992 12:31:11 GMT
Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: jupiter

Does anybody know how to paste Quicktime movies into Hypercard?

Does Hypercard 2.1 support Quicktime? Which additional files
are requested for the system folder if system 6.0.7 or system 7.0 are
installed?

Any hints are very appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Joerg



Joerg Poswig
Universitaet Dortmund - Lehrstuhl Informatik 1
Otto-Hahn-Strasse 16, Raum 202
4600 Dortmund 50

phone ++49/231/755 6414
fax  ++49/231/755 6555

email  poswig@jupiter.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
From: corwin@ensta.ensta.fr (Gilles Gravier)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster sampling frequency accuracy
Date: 22 Aug 92 20:47:02 GMT
Organization: Ensta, Paris, France
NNTP-Posting-Host: ensta.ensta.fr

In article <1992Aug21.113836.20589@email.tuwien.ac.at> martin@eichow.tuwien.ac.at writes:
>
>So the problem is not one of using 8 bits, as in your example, to represent
>the 440 Hz out of 22 kHz one might want to record, which would give a 86 Hz
>inaccuracy and render the sound card unusable. Rather, it is one of getting
>the input and output sampling frequencies to be the same.


	I must have explained myself badly (sorry, I'm French... My English is
not as it could be). What I was saying is that in a .VOC file, the sampling
frequency is coded on one byte, at offset 4 in a Voice Data block. The
sampling rate is the determined by using the formula:

SR(1 byte)=256-1000000/SamplingRate

	Which means exactly what I was saying... As the sampling rate is
defined on 1 byte, it's precision is of 1/256=0.4% which means that when
sampling ANYTHING at 11000Hz, you may actually be sampling at anything
between 10989 and 11111 Hz... and, when replaying, you have the same
possible variations... Dont be surprised if the sound you sample then play
again varies... You may have sampled at 10989 and played at 11111 Hz...
Or vice versa...

	A Sound Blaster never was precise...

Gilles.

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Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: dierick@brsux0.bro.dec.com (Dierick Dominique)
Subject: Re: Turning a DecStation into a multimedia workstation
Reply-To: dierick@ketje.enet.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Brussels
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 08:59:33 GMT



Forgot to mention one in Europe :

	KING
	Interconnect : RGB signal
	Grafite SRL
	Via Cadorna 9
	20059 Vimercate ( Milano)
	Italy
	Phone : [39] 39.608.0233


Dominique
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: leo@zelator.in-berlin.de (Stefan Hartmann)
Subject: Re: Death Knell for DVI?????
Organization: Puplic-Access-Xenix-System
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 14:24:04 GMT

In <52520008@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com> teoallan@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com (Allan TEO) writes:


>Here is a message I found...
>>>>>>>>

>The word is out that Intel has just cancelled the development of the "V3" DVI 
>chip.  This is a blow to all of us who have a stake in the future of DVI as 
>one of the predominent players in the MM game.

>This chip was supposed to be the successor to the PB/DB silicon on the current
>AM-II boards, and would have made DVI processing fast and powerful enough to 
>do real time MPEG decompression, Px64, PLV X.X,,RTV X.X, as well as a whole 
>host of other features missing or incomplete in the current chips.  This is 
>the chip that Intel DVI proponents have been touting for the past year or two,
>and the foundation of Intel's migration plans for DVI.  A lot of third-party 
>developers, particularly those with plans to port DVI to other platforms (Sun,
>SGI, and others) have been awaiting details on this chip.  It also figured 
>into plans to develop true multimedia digital network capabilities and 
>teleconferencing.


Hmm, if the P5 will be out, wait what you can do then by software only
decompression with the XING technology scalable MPEG player....

Then it will be possible to do SVGA 640x480 on a local BUS system in
realtime with software only MPEG decompression.

Why would you invest then in a 3000US$ hardware , which gives no more
better picture quality than a 100 Mips P5 (586) processor with the
right software ?
And the P5 will be out around Xmas..


>This is a bleak moment for DVI!!

Let's do it by software only. It will be more flexible..

>ANY COMMENTS ANYBODY??????????

Best regards Stefan Hartmann.
email to: leo@zelator.in-berlin.de


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Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Saturday, 22 Aug 1992 21:10:41 CDT
From: Ted (Theo) Stresen-Reuter <U42075@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: MM Director: make that "working"

please forgive the typos, I was in a hurry.
From: marrevola@iris-dcp.es
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Control mix-amp for sbpro from win3.
Date: 17 Aug 92 12:38:53 +0100
Organization: REDIRIS, Red Nacional de I+D


 Does any body know how to control mix-amp functions of analog inputs in a
Sound-Blaster Pro from windows?
We have to do it from our application, we know how to use the creative labs
mixer, jukebox and so on  :-)
We would like to do it with MCI commands using MME's, but I don't think of
anybody with this knowledge except a Microsoft Corp. developer.

This is a very interesting news group.
Best Regards for all.

manolo@taf.fundesco.es
From: prich@monk (Paul Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: "Industry Standards?"/Digital Recording/Music
Date: 17 Aug 92 16:29:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: rosie.4735

In article <Bsy1nz.3ru@spock.dis.cccd.edu> maurices@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Maurice  
Shihadi) writes:
> 
> In article <1992Aug13.035741.24393@nntp.uoregon.edu> johnm@cajal.uoregon.edu  
(John Martin) writes:
> >In article <BswAM8.3LK@spock.dis.cccd.edu>, maurices@spock.dis.cccd.edu  
(Maurice Shihadi) writes:
> >
> >>I wish someone like TEAC would put together an eight track digital
> >>DAT machine with eight inputs, eight outputs, two SCSI 

Check out the Alesis Adat, it might be what you are looking for
--

/pgr

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email: Paul_Richardson@next.com
From: jstern@garnet.berkeley.edu ()
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: SuperMac's DigitalFilm
Date: 13 Aug 1992 18:33:08 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Aug11.135536.10002@waikato.ac.nz> ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes:
>I picked up a press release for SuperMac's DigitalFilm product off AppleLink
>a couple of weeks ago.

Anybody know what the advantages of DigitalFilm are over the New Video
EyeQ DVI stuff? Why would I want to pay $6000 for DigitalFilm, when I
can pay $4500 for the EyeQ authoring system? Also, right now there's not
playback only board for DigitalFilm, whereas there's a $2500 playback 
EyeQ board. I asked this of the folks who were showing DigitalFilm in
Boston, but they played dumb about it...

Thanks,                
Judy Stern
Instructional Technology Program
UC Berkeley
jstern@garnet.berkeley.edu
   
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: kdarling@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling)
Subject: Re: MPEG encoding time
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 11:12:51 GMT

herbt@naaman.sarnoff.com (Herbert H Taylor III) writes:
> [about MPEG encoding work]
> The picture quality of Bellcore's system looks pretty good, BTW. The
> jury is not totally in on the quality but I would sell my Blockbuster
> video stock if I had any...

You might want to keep any stock, since a lot of people believe Blockbuster
(together with Philips, who's invested $100 million in Blockbuster stock)
intends to carry CD/MPEG movies, perhaps even by early next year.

This may have been asked before, but I didn't see an answer:  Is that
code from Bellcore available to us common folk?  Thanks!

kevin <kdarling@catt.ncsu.edu> <76703.4227@compuserve.com>
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: mayer@eimoni.tuwien.ac.at
Subject: DVI driver for ToolBook
Reply-To: mayer@eimoni.tuwien.ac.at
Organization: Computer Science, Vienna, Austria
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 15:06:36 GMT

We are currently develop a project using ToolBook. Our local dealer
told us that Asymetrix will ship the DVI driver at the end of the year.
Does anybody know a company which offers a usable DVI driver for ToolBook ?

Thanks,
Chris

chris@ruble.tuwien.ac.at
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia,comp.graphics
From: purp@wixer.cactus.org (Jim Meyer)
Subject: Re: Looking for recommendation on color scanner/printer
Organization: Real/Time Communications
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 14:58:08 GMT

In article <1992Aug11.175237.2406@usace.mil> pace@tabarzin.usace.mil (Joe Pace) writes:
>Hello,
>
>   Would anyone have reccommendations for a good quality color
>scanner (256 color, about 600 DPI) and color printer (up to
>8.5x11 output, 256 color, about 600DPI)?  I know this is
>a pretty generic request, but generic responses are appreciated.
>The application involves scanning color photographs of damaged
>structures for on-line access by engineers.  A color output
>device would be needed to make hardcopy and should be able to
>render the original in near photographic quality.  
>
>As an aside... is 600 DPI good enough?  We have been looking at
>a Tangent drum scanner that has very tight registration at 1000 DPI,
>but at $170,000, it's a little pricy.  Another machine we've
>been considering is the Cannon CDC-500, a 400 DPI color scanner,
>printer, and color copier.  It sells for about $70,000.


Here's the quick lesson of print quality, as I've learned from DTP
experience:

Input resolution, as far as VISUAL OUTPUT QUALITY is concerned, does not
depend on the resolution of the scan. Higher resolutions give you more
definition, to be sure, but only if you have the output capability able
to accurately reproduce that input.

The funny thing is, input and output are NOT 1:1; that is, you need not
scan at 600 dpi to get the best possible output from your 600 dpi
printer. The actual resolution relates to the best possible screen
frequency (lpi, which is not the same as dpi) possible at your printer's
resolution. For 600 dpi, this is around 100 lines per inch (lpi)
optimally; a nominal setting is 75-80 lpi.

Here's the confusing part: All you really need for accurate reproduction
of a greyscale or color image is twice as much resolution as you expect
to have available in screen frequency at output; i.e. if you have a 600
dpi printer for output, you only need to scan at between 160 and 200
dpi.

This all sounds hokey, I know, but this is from experience. I have been
playing with desktop scanners and typesetters (1200-3400 dpi output
devices) for years now, and this is the concensual decision of many
people.

Hope that helps!

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Newsgroups: comp.multimedia,comp.music,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
From: leo@zelator.in-berlin.de (Stefan Hartmann)
Subject: WinMod10.zip Modplayer posted !
Organization: Puplic-Access-Xenix-System
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 22:56:54 GMT
Summary: winmod
Keywords: winmod

Hi,

I just have posted winmod10.zip, the one and only windows multitasking
Modplayer to:

alt.binaries.sounds.misc   and
de.alt.binaries.sounds

Download it from there and have fun !

It is great !

Best regards Stefan Hartmann.
email to: leo@zelator.in-berlin.de


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