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From: Eva Cheung <eva@next.csc.cuhk.hk>
Subject: software info
Organization: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 12:52:48 GMT

Dear netters,
 
Are you developing your multimedia applications/courseware?  With DVI?
SoundBlaster? Diaquest for output?  How about software!  HyperText
software? Graphics & Animation software? Instructional design software?
I would like to share your experience and have your recommendation on our
setup.  We have two PCs for development, 486  & 386 with soundcard and dvi
card but we are searching some software.  Are you using AutoDesk 3D &
Animator Pro?  MacroMind Director?  Authorware (How about the new version
2)?  Or other animation software/instructional software?
 
Your idea or information are very appreciated!
 
Eva Cheung                                           a985700@cucsc.bitnet
Computer Services Centre                             eva@next.csc.cuhk.hk
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Fax:  (852) 603-5001
Voice:(852) 609-8837
From: balaji@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Balaji)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: MPEG - info. wanted.
Date: 29 Sep 92 17:40:18 GMT
Organization: Temple University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5


	Hi,

	Sorry if this question has already appeared in this newsgroup -
	does anyone know where I can find specs on MPEG - audio/video.
	Also, does anyone know if there are any ASICs available in the
	market that use MPEG algorithm for encoding/decoding audio/video.
	Any help in this regard would be greatly appreciated.

	Thanks,

	Balaji.

	balaji@astro.ocis.temple.edu
	v1766g@templevm.bitnet
From: galenr@hpgrla.gr.hp.com (Galen Raben)
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 15:29:29 GMT
Subject: Comparisons of TV/Windows cards?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Greeley, CO
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia

Would anyone know how any of the various "TV/Windows" products for PC-Win3.x
compare (cost, features, capture quality, video quality, etc...)??  Anyone
have any side by side impressions?

Looking for:  Creative Labs - VideoBlaster, Hauppage - Win/TV, others??
Interested in lower end cards (under $500 US).  Does anyone know of
cards by VideoLogic or others in the lower end?

Has Digital Vision done a Windows version of the ComputerEyes Pro or RT?
What about Jovian Logic?

Thanks!
- Galen -
galenr@hpgrla.gr.hp.com
From: andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Radio shack 199.00 special..
Date: 30 Sep 92 20:12:14 GMT
Reply-To: andrew@frip.wv.tek.com
Organization: Tektronix Color Printers, Wilsonville, Oregon


	"A while back PC magazine did a review on CD-ROMs.  They had a
	sidebar about the Tandy one.  The one they were talking about
	impressed them.  Basically it was about average in read time
	..."

But absolutely abysmal in mean access time, rated at *900*
milliseconds!  What impressed PC Magazine was the low price -- CD-ROM
for the masses who don't need multimedia performance.

  -=- Andrew Klossner  (andrew@frip.wv.tek.com)
                       (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: cwm@Turing.ORG (Chris W. Morris)
Subject: .FLI to MPEG??
Keywords: Educational
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 21:54:05 GMT

I would like to convert some of .FLI animations to MPEG files.. Is there any
sort of conversion program that could do this?

Thank You, 
Chris W. Morris
cwm@Turing.ORG.
From: jmolmo@iris-dcp.es
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Where is there an Acme Server?
Date: 28 Sep 92 23:07:32 +0100
Organization: REDIRIS, Red Nacional de I+D

	
	Is there any place where I get an Acme Server?
	and Tenet Project Documentation?

	I have to realize a study about the possibility the use digital video
in the creation virtual classroom.

Thanks in advance.
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: thia@sce.carleton.ca (Yong Thia)
Subject: MM products
Keywords: Multi-media
Organization: Carleton University
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 02:27:37 GMT

Hi! I'm interested in buying a multi-media system on a PC running
Microsoft Window applications. I need a video board with JPEG
compression card and SVGA adaptor. I also need a development toolkit.
I have heard about the Super Video Windows product from New Media
Graphics. Could anyone please tell me the address of the company and
are there any similar products out there?

Any pointers will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance
From: gridlock@cats.ucsc.edu (Will Gridweed)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Autodesk 3-d Studio Cd-Rom
Date: 28 Sep 92 01:57:05 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu


	I know theres a cd-rom of shapes/objects for Autodesk 3-d Studio
out there, does anyone have a place I can get it from, and how much?

-Will
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.multimedia,comp.sys.amiga.multimedia,comp.edu,comp.mail.multimedia,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,alt.hypertext,alt.cd-rom,alt.education.distance
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia

In comp.multimedia, kenter@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Almus Kenter) writes:



>	Radio shack is having a special sale on an internal
>        CD ROM reader for only 199.00. (reg 399.00)
>        what is the net wisdom on that unit? Is it really slow?
>        is it only for some perverse Tandy format.....?

>				--Almus

Isn't the Radio Shack unit a Mitsumi?  If so, it's the same drive thats
been appearing "on-sale" almost everywhere.  I think Software Etc. had these
at $199 and CompuAdd at $169  (last I heard...).  Access time is a bit
slow at 700ms, I dunno about thruput.  Multimedia PC spec (MPC-1) suggests
< 500ms access and >150 kb/sec thruput.  Slow access one could probably live
with but if it's less than 150 kb/sec thruput, "semi-smooth" motion in video
is out...

Another inexpensive drive I saw recently was in DAK at $199, access was very
slow, but thruput was OK...  Heard DAK went bankrupt though, dunno if they
still sell stuff or not.  Anyone know?  I haven't seen a catalog in several
months...

- Galen -
From: venable@faculty.coe.wvu.wvnet.edu (Wallace Venable)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME!
Date: 1 Oct 92 19:28:59 GMT
Organization: WVU College of Engineering

In article <MemYVmm00UzxI6Lkkp@andrew.cmu.edu> rj25+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert W. Jordan) writes:


>   I am a freshman at Carnegie Mellon University and I need some help. 
>At CMU, students don't declare their major until after their sophomore
>year.  Right now, I've kind of decided on majoring in Creative Writing. 
>However, what I think would be way cool to do is develop my own major
>called, "Computer-based Multimedia Development."

	Where is
		Programming in C/C++
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: thia@sce.carleton.ca (Yong Thia)
Subject: Educational products
Keywords: Educational
Organization: Carleton University
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 14:39:05 GMT

Hi! I am wondering if there are educational multi-media products
available out there? I will summarize all replies and repost them.

Thank you in advance.

Regards
From: k8gj@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Interactivity in Multimedia
Date: 3 Oct 92 02:19:40 EDT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell University

I am looking for information on interactivity in educational multimedia.
What are the essentials of interactivity for the user?
Should the interactivity be limited or limitless?
Should the user be guided or have to discover things without instructions?
Should interface be intuitive or standardized?

I am writing a paper on interactivity in multimedia for Tuesday and I wanted to 
know if anyone has thoughts on it. Thanks.


Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: lin@oscar.info.waseda.ac.jp (1992M2 Lin)
Subject: Help! About SoundBlaster and Digtal scan converter
X-Nntp-Posting-Host: oscar11.oscar.info.waseda.ac.jp
Organization: Narita-Kasahara Lab., Department of Electric Engineering, School
	of Science and Engineering, WASEDA University
Distribution: comp
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 06:31:36 GMT


Hi everybody:

	I am a student in Japan Waseda university. Now we
are going to develop some multimedia sofrware in
Multimedia Windows with SoundBlaster card. But we don't
have any information about how to use Soundblaster card.
For example we want to send ****.wav file to SoundBlaster
directly do not use soundrec.exe(sound record : WIN's
application)  or mmcbox.exe(SB Chatter WIN'sapplication)
Does anybody have any information about it? 

	And we want to buy a digtal scan converter from
VGA signal to NTSC signal for 640*480*256 color.(ofcourse
if it can offer 800*600*256 or 1024*768*256 is better) I
can find it but just for 640*400*256 in Japan. Does
anybody has any information about it? 

  I hope you can mail me directly. Thank you in advance.

My e-mail address is : lin@oscar.info.waseda.ac.jp	  

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Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: laucy@newton.ccs.tuns.ca (Julian Lau)
Subject: Re: Comminication requirements of MM applications
Organization: Technical University of Nova Scotia, Halifax, N.S.
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 02:09:20 GMT

Greetings all,

I'm doing some personal research into multi-media and was wondering if 
theres any courses out there that can suggest some good de-facto reference
text.  

Please email personally to me:  laucy@newton.ccs.tuns.ca

Thanks much and best regards.


Julian.  

Newsgroups: comp.multimedia,comp.misc
From: john@percy.rain.com (John Cavanaugh)
Subject: Multi-media object-oriented DBMS wanted...
Organization: Percy's mach, Portland, OR
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 02:02:03 GMT

Does anyone know of a multi-media object-oriented database management 
system out there?  Windows compatibility would be a plus.  Thanks.
--
John Cavanaugh         "There can be only one."     <john@percival.rain.com>
From: markts@mcl.ucsb.edu (Mark T. Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: animation software?
Keywords: software
Date: 30 Sep 92 16:19:45 GMT


Hello.
I have a 486-33, with local bus video and 16meg ram.
Does anyone have suggestions regarding good software for 
putting together video presentations (animation and/or
video images)?

Also any suggestions for putting an entire multimedia
package together (video, sound, interaction with user)?

Any suggestions would be appreciated (including what
software to avoid). Hardware tips regarding video
boards would also be nice.

thanks. mark.
markts@mcl.ucsb.edu

Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: rkl@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (kevin.laux)
Subject: Re: SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME!
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 13:06:27 GMT

In article <1aige2INNo1l@moe.ksu.ksu.edu>, raj@phys.ksu.edu (S. Raj Chaudhury) writes:
> In <venable.161@faculty.coe.wvu.wvnet.edu> venable@faculty.coe.wvu.wvnet.edu (Wallace Venable) writes:
> 
> >In article <MemYVmm00UzxI6Lkkp@andrew.cmu.edu> rj25+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert W. Jordan) writes:
> 
> >>   I am a freshman at Carnegie Mellon University and I need some help. 
> >>called, "Computer-based Multimedia Development."
> 
> >	Where is
> >		Programming in C/C++
> 
> WHY?? Programming in C/C++ has *NOTHING* to do with Multimedia development?
> Multimedia is a form - it is a way of thinking about delivering a message -
> not a platform or language specific thing!!!
> 
> Too many so-called Multimedia products are video clips strung together with
> some fancy buttons and graphics - CLEARLY THERE IS MUCH MORE TO BE EXPLORED!
> Knowing programming is good, but it misses the point for Multimedia.
> Authoring tools should do the hard-core work - not C/C++

	Clearly, you haven't done anything in multimedia.  You're right that
there is much more to be explored.  If you can't program, where does that
leave you when the off-the-shelf authoring tools don't do or provide what you
want?  Sometimes the authoring tools *do* provide what you want, but the
implementation imposes restrictions or is too unwieldy or slow, so it becomes
unacceptable.  Multimedia is a new and emerging field - *no* authoring system
will give you everything you may want.  And the actual reality is that an
authoring system and custom software are just part of the *methodology* of
creating and delivering a multimedia application.

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From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Need to Build Cable Between Video Deck and Macintosh
Date: 28 Sep 92 11:55:04 +1200
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

In article <38684@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, sakelley@euclid.ucsd.edu (Scott Kelley) writes:
>
> However, the other deck I want to go to is a Sony D-2 digital video
> deck. It apparently has a 15-pin D-connector that provides an RS-422
> interface to the deck. And it's this deck that's got me stumped. Can
> anyone tell me how to make a cable for it? The main difficulty I'm
> having is that I'm used to RS-232, and both the mac and this deck
> actually want to talk RS-422. And I don't know how to work with RS-422.

I've successfully ignored this fact when working with Macs for several years
now :-). RS-422/423 is backward-compatible with RS-232C.

> What gets connected to what? Can anybody help me build a cable for this?
> Here's what I know about the pinouts of the two devices:
>
> Sony Deck (DB-15):    Apple Serial Port (DIN-8):
> ------------------    --------------------------
> 2  Rx-                  1  HSKo
> 3  Tx-                  2  HSKi
> 8  Spare                3  TxD-
> 9  Gnd                  4  Gnd
> 10 Rx+                  5  RxD-
> 11 Tx+                  6  TxD+
> 12 +12v                 7  NC
> 13 Frame Gnd            8  RxD+
> 14 Gnd
> All others NC
>
> For RS-422, Do I connect Tx+ to Tx+, Rx+, or Rx-, or what? I've got no
> idea. And I don't want to damage their mind-bogglingly expensive video
> equipment!!!

At a guess I'd say you need a "null-modem" connection. That is, connect
Tx+ on one side to Rx+ on the other, and similarly for Tx- and Rx-. Also
connect the grounds together. I see there're no handshake pins on the Sony side,
so I guess you should leave the HSKo and HSKi pins unconnected on the Mac side.

The Mac serial drivers can be configured to run in various modes, including
both hardware handshake (using those HSK lines) and software (XON/XOFF)
handshake. I assume the Sony would use either software handshaking, or no
handshaking at all. A less likely alternative is that it uses some other
strange pair of characters (e g ETX/ACK) for its handshaking; if need be,
the Mac serial drivers can be reconfigured to use these.

Just a thought: what software are you running on the Mac to drive the
serial port? That might have limits on the amount of reconfiguring it will
allow you to do.

I should admit I'm no hardware type. If I get into trouble, I usually end
up calling on my technician colleagues for help. But I *have* successfully
worked out a few odd RS-232C connections in my time.

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+12:00
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: elgreco@milton.u.washington.edu (Jared Vogt)
Subject: Projection Monitors for Comp Presentations
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 03:25:38 GMT




I am asking this on behalf of a friend.  He is interested in a color projection
monitor, to project a presentation that is running on a computer. 
Size - presentations of about 25 people.  Actually, he was wondering if
a projection monitor is the best solution. Apparently there are two different
styles, front and rear projection. What are the merits and drawbacks of each?   The screen size would need to be about
6' X 5'.  Any experience with these beasts and/or advice concerning them
would be much appreciated. Performance/price ratio would be helpful as well.

And if I am in the wrong newsgroup, could someone point me in the right
direction.

Please send email to:
elgreco@u.washington.edu

Thanks in advance

Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: willdye@helios.unl.edu (Will Dye)
Subject: Re: SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME!
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Date:  1 Oct 92 22:54:10 GMT

(reply to a student who is building a special-topics degree in mm) 

I graduated im May with the same kind of major you've described.  It was 
a lot of fun, and the only reason I don't have a steady job yet is that 
I'm trying to stay in the Nebraska/Colorado area.  As far as I know, this 
is the FIRST four-year degree ever awarded in Multimedia Computing.  
Believe me, that looks good on a resume.  I'm working at a video studio 
now, producing 3-d animation.  Eventuall I hope to land a job in true 
multimedia, but all the offers so far involve moving.  I may have to 
move anyway if nothing shows up in my area, but the point is that there 
ARE jobs out there for such a degree.  

I took courses similar to the ones you've described, but I added another 
group:  I'd find a professor with mm equipment, and propose a special-
topics course where I work one-on-one with the prof on some mm application.
This requires a lot of knocking on doors and hearing the word 'no', but I 
learned more from those courses than anything else.  You should also 
consider more film courses, especially film history (to see how others 
developed a new medium) and filmmaking.

PLEASE let me know how it turns out.  I'll help out however I can.  If 
the 'big cheeses' balk at the idea of a multimedia degree, tell them 
the University of Nebraska already approved such a degree, and they have 
even less mm equipment than your college does.

As for the future, I believe that mm, or something equivalent, should 
become a regular degree program.  A good mm director should know about 
computers, video, audio, images, writing, etc. to take full advantage 
of the medium.  I believe that existing mm titles still don't use the 
medium to it's full power, primarily because we're still developing the 
'language' of the medium - like the early film directors.  Multimedia, 
though poorly defined, isn't going to go away, but neither art nor  
comp sci directly address all the issues we need to be aware of.  We 
need a regular degree program.

--William Dye
willdye@helios.unl.edu
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: groeneve@alumni.cs.colorado.edu (GROENEVELT ALEXANDER)
Subject: 16-bit to 8-bit PCM conversion
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 20:26:45 GMT

Greetings:

I have a quick question about converting 16-bit PCM data to
8-bit PCM data.  Is it just a linear conversion or is there
something special involved?  If there is, can you direct me
to a program that will do the conversion.

Please e-mail me with information.  Thanks in advance!

-aLeX (groeneve@alumni.cs.colorado.edu)

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Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: leo@zelator.in-berlin.de (Stefan Hartmann)
Subject: Re: Projection Monitors for Comp Presentations
Organization: Puplic-Access-Xenix-System
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 01:51:47 GMT

In <elgreco.717564338@milton> elgreco@milton.u.washington.edu (Jared Vogt) writes:




>I am asking this on behalf of a friend.  He is interested in a color projection
>monitor, to project a presentation that is running on a computer. 
>Size - presentations of about 25 people.  Actually, he was wondering if
>a projection monitor is the best solution. Apparently there are two different
>styles, front and rear projection. What are the merits and drawbacks of each?   The screen size would need to be about
>6' X 5'.  Any experience with these beasts and/or advice concerning them
>would be much appreciated. Performance/price ratio would be helpful as well.

>And if I am in the wrong newsgroup, could someone point me in the right
>direction.

>Please send email to:
>elgreco@u.washington.edu

>Thanks in advance
Hi,
I have given a multimedia presentation recently and we have used a LCD
projector for this kind of presentation.

If you use a PC, you can use a Genoa Genlock board to get video output
from the PC and have VGA output at the same time still on your VGA
monitor.
We used the new M2200 Pro Genlock, which has a flicker filter and it
worked real good with the Sharp NTSC LCD projector.
The Genlock board was connected to the LCD projector via Y/C output
and the display was very crisp and clear and flicker free !

If you don't need simultaneouly VGA Monitor output, you can use also
our :
24 bit to TV converter box, which fits to your VGA connector. It is an
external box and converts VGA (and true color 640x480) to PAL or NTSC
video or Y/C. It is just 349.-DM incl. VAT in Germany.
If you have a Genoa 7900 24 bit SVGA card you have the cheapest 24 bit
video display !

Best regards, Stefan Hartmann, c/o Ingenieurbuero Gatz & Hartmann.


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