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From: mitzel@caldera.usc.edu (Danny Mitzel)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Multimedia conferencing
Date: 9 Sep 1992 12:34:47 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: caldera.usc.edu

I know the last IETF provided audio and video over the Internet using
IP multicast.  Can anyone give me pointers to public domain packages
available on the net to do something similar over a private IP internet
[not LAN based].  I'm interested in info on audio/video encoding
schemes, playback applications, and required hardware [camera, codec,
PC/Workstation, etc.].

thanks for any info!
danny (mitzel@usc.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: zhj@argon.iss.nus.sg (zhang hong jiang)
Subject: Video board for SUN Sparc station
Reply-To: zhj@iss.nus.sg (zhang hong jiang)
Organization: Institute of Systems Science, NUS, Singapore
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 04:47:55 GMT

It is very much appreicated if anyone could give information on available
video board for Sun Sparc station 2/10 which can grabe video frame at full 
frame rate. 

Zhang HongJiang
Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore
From: exubrst@exu.ericsson.se (Brad Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: LCD for SUN
Date: 9 Sep 92 14:19:20 GMT
Reply-To: exubrst@exu.ericsson.se
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems, Inc.

Does anyone know of a commercially available LCD screen
for SUN Sparcstations.  What I'm looking for is the kind
of screen that sits on an overhead projector.  The
alternative would be something that provides NTSC output
so that I can use a projection TV to display the SUN image.

Thanks in advance,
Brad
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: gary@nexnix.demon.co.uk (Gary Howland)
Subject: MPEG
Distribution: world
Organization: nexnix
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 20:10:57 +0000

Can anybody tell me of a relatively cheap way of generating MPEG
data from a standard video source?  Can the NeXT machine do this?

Thanks in advance - Gary

Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: mdicker@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mike Dickerson)
Subject: Re: Buying a multimedia system
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 04:14:25 GMT

ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes:

>I'd like to know what sort of images you saw on the DCTV. Were they
>computer-generated animations, or captured digital video?

They were computer generated, but the entire frame was changing each
time, because it was a flying-observer type of deal where objects were
moving in the scene and also the observer was moving too which had the
effect of the entire background of the image changing.  Looked
way-fine.  The salesdroid indicated it had been rendered on an Amiga
3000 with some sort of animation program. 

   M/
From: jpgorrono@ucdavis.edu (Jon Gorrono)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Mac software to control NEC PC-VCR needed
Date: 9 Sep 92 23:15:15 GMT
Organization: Information Techonology Services, UC Davis
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1a2



Authorware Professional has the ability to control the NEC-PCVCR
built-in.  There are also XCMD's available so that you can use Hypercard,
Director, and the like.  I beleive that there are also xObjects for
Director available. I have some of these goodies, if you need them.
From: ezix@ucrengr.ucr.edu (edward j. zix)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Re : Philips CD-Recorder
Date: 8 Sep 92 07:29:02 GMT
Organization: University of California, Riverside
	What software are you using with that recorder??
	Are you using the recorder with a Unix box??
	where can I get the software for it...does anybody sell a
From: Ron_Mcnutt@mindlink.bc.ca (Ron Mcnutt)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: ACT3 AUTHORS?
Date: 7 Sep 92 05:39:05 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

Hello!

I am using the program "ACT3" from the Informatics Group in Conneticut to
author multimedia for IBM. I would like to connect with others out there who
may also be using ACT3.

Ron McNutt
From: cain@silverblue.fac.cs.cmu.edu (Sebastian Nightingale Cain)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Buying a multimedia system
Date: 8 Sep 92 21:15:29 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon

> Newtek raised the price of the Video Toaster 2.0 to $1895... it can be
> had for around $1500.  A standalone system (Amiga with toaster) costs
> around $4000.00....
> 
> > 
> > --Pete Tevonian
> >   tevonian@sumter.cso.uiuc.edu
> 
> John Dudley
> Vertex Laboratories

Whoa- hold on a minute. I have not seen advertised, nor have I heard
from the local dealers that I have talked to, a price of less than 
$2000 for a new in the box Toaster.  I've seen adds for reconditioned
Toasters for $1799. I think the list for a new Toaster is $2500 - That's
the number I heard on NewTek's Toaster Demo Tape.
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: drapeau@oglala.Stanford.EDU (George Drapeau)
Subject: Re: Centralized timing service
Reply-To: drapeau@sioux.stanford.edu
Organization: Libraries and Information Resources, Stanford University
Date: 11 Sep 92 00:53:55

In article <1992Sep9.224534.11086@smsc.sony.com> dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott) writes:

   I'll have to admit that I'm not familiar with the deep details of
   QuickTime, the X Synchronization Extension and other "multimedia"
   systems, so if this is something already available, then all the
   better.

   One of the problems I've seen with multimedia systems is that they
   provide support for developing "all-in-one" programs, but not really
   for dealing with multiple synced programs.

   [rest of original posting deleted -- George]

You might check out MAEstro, (I'm the Project Leader).  MAEstro is a
distributed multimedia authoring environment for Unix boxes, the core
of which is an inter-application messaging system built on top of Sun
RPC.  We are trying to address some of the problems you mention.  How
successful we are, I'm not sure, but we have learned quite a lot from
our experience so far.

The MAEstro software (source and binaries) are freely available via
anonymous ftp from sioux.stanford.edu, in the directory pub/MAEstro.
The full source distribution comes with copious documentation,
including a paper presented at the 1991 Summer Usenix conference, and
the MAEstro Programmer's Guide which describes in great detail the
protocol, semantics, and how we hope to address synchronization
problems (in part, at least).

The Usenix paper should give you a good technical overview of the
environment and the rationale behind our design.  If you have any
questions beyond that, please feel free to ask me.

(Also, ask me about a possible Sony NEWS port; I'm compiling XView 3.0
in the background, as I write this message, on a NEWS laptop running
4.3; the current MAEstro applications were written with the XView
toolkit, although the protocol itself is window-system-neutral).

I hope this helps some.

	George

P.S.:  I just finished a driver for the Vdeck.  Nice box.
--
______________________________________________________________________________
George D. Drapeau			Internet: drapeau@sioux.stanford.edu
Libraries and Information Resources
Stanford University
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: leo@zelator.in-berlin.de (Stefan Hartmann)
Subject: Re: VGA -> VCR/TV
Organization: Puplic-Access-Xenix-System
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 04:23:43 GMT

In <1992Sep11.215826.14197@oracle.us.oracle.com> ppai@pei.us.oracle.com (Pei-Ming Pai) writes:

>Why not just get a demokey.  A small device, gets output from the VGA port and 
>costs only about $200 less.  I know, this only get 640x400, but you can't
>beat the price...


>						Pai


Hi,
I checked this device already out, but the TSR background program is
very poor. It only supports some SVGA cards and you have no
800x600x256 support for PAL ! Also there is no 24 bit support at
640x480 !
It also had some flicker in the PAL output, when I played animation
from harddrive (FLI-animations) !

So they better have a redesign !

Also there is no connection for the VGA monitor.
You have every time hook it up or off to switch between Video and VGA
output !

Our 24bit to TV converter has also a VGA output connector and you can
switch between VGA and Video output with a simple ALT-left-Shift-V
keystroke !

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


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Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: pete@cs.hw.ac.uk (Pete Sykes)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: DECstation audio/XMedia
Date: 8 Sep 92 13:31:39 GMT
Organization: Dept of Computing & Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland

I agree XMedia audio does appear to be more complex than it
need be for some applications. However it doesn't *need*
X windows and Motif, look at the playstdin and record
binaries No X required, just a running audioserver.  
The problem I think they tried to solve is to provide an
audioservice for workstations that didn't support audio 
by providing a means of sharing one audi-capable workstation
with the client server architecture. However I can't think
of an application where I would want to have my audio remote
(i.e out of earshot)  RE the remote conferencing I guess
the audioserver does some of it for you, but I haven't
had time to do much to find out, and I don't know if it
would ever track any of the standards that are emerging

Pete Sykes	ICBL
		Heriot Watt University
		Edinburgh
From: dudley@cebaf4.cebaf.gov (John Dudley)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Buying a multimedia system
Date: 8 Sep 92 17:27:42 GMT
Reply-To: dudley@cebaf4.cebaf.gov (John Dudley)
Organization: CEBAF

In article <Bu39Mn.2Gx@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, tevonian@sumter.cso.uiuc.edu
(Pete Tevonian) writes:
> dudley@cebaf4.cebaf.gov (John Dudley) writes:
> 

> 
> I don't believe that you get NTSC output standard in the Amiga 2000 or
> 3000 any more. The 1000's had it, but I believe you now need a Toaster
> or DCTV like device to get NTSC. I may be wrong about this (I don't have
> one in front of me) but none of the 2000's or 3000's we used last year had 
> NTSC output directly from the machine.
> 

 The hardware that controls video in the Amiga outputs it in accordance
with NTSC timing, etc.  Now it is true that you need a device to convert
the standard Analog RGB signals over into NTSC, but commodore
sells this device roughly $20.(it comes bundled in some Amiga systems) 
But you do not need anything expensive to do this.

> The DCTV is 21bit, if I remember correctly and does do a good job of
> rendering NTSC output. The original poster was looking for animation
> straight from Hard Drive. I don't think the DCTVs can do that, at least not
> without some more help (either software or hardware). In my computer
> animation courses last year, we were limted by the 9M RAM in the 3000's we
> were using. 
> 

I don't know what software you were using, but most of the Animation
creators I have seen for the Amiga WILL in fact allow you to view the
animation in real time from Harddrive.

> 
> On the Video Toaster -- I think NewTek raised the price of the toaster
> to somewhere near $2500 last year, did they not? This may be a list 
> price, however, and it may be had for less. The Toaster is a wonderful
> piece of equpiment though. If you plan to expand your system later, it
> may be worth it to buy a 2000 (The Toaster won't fit in a 3000) now and
> use a DCTV until you get up funds for a Toa
  
Newtek raised the price of the Video Toaster 2.0 to $1895... it can be
had for around $1500.  A standalone system (Amiga with toaster) costs
around $4000.00....

> 
> --Pete Tevonian
>   tevonian@sumter.cso.uiuc.edu

John Dudley
Vertex Laboratories
From: zimmer@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: DOS/Windows mm package info sought
Date: 11 Sep 92 10:32:26 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University

We're starting to get into multimedia development at our university.
I will be doing this on the DOS/Windows platform.  I have done some
research, checked out some demos, etc., but I suspect others have
already accumulated information on the various packages out there.
Below are the various important points I have come up with.  I would
like to get answers for the DOS/Windows multimedia packages.  Reply
to me please, to avoid clogging the list.  I will summarize to the
list if there is enough demand.

Product:
Company:
Price:
Educational Price:
Demo Y/N:
Demo Price:
Demo Features:
Runtime Avail Y/N:
Runtime Price:
Windows Required Y/N:
Amount of RAM Required:
Hard Disk Space Required:
Suitability for lessons,
  can record answers Y/N:
Network Suitability?
Other Important Details:

One of the points above is network suitability.  I know that may be an
oxymoron.  Has anyone implemented a multimedia application in a campus
lab environment?  If so, I'd like to hear about it.

Thanks,

W  WWW   WWW  MM   MMM   UU  UUU  U      Roy Zimmer
W  WW    WW  MM    MM    UU  UUU  U      zimmer@gw.wmich.edu
W  W  W  W  MM  M  M  M  UU  UUU  U      University Computing Services
W    WW    MM  MM    MM  UUU     UU      Western Michigan University
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: Jonathan Rosenberg <jxr@thumper.bellcore.com>
Subject: Re: Multimedia Degrees
Organization: Bellcore
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 03:54:03 GMT

> kpm8447@tesla.njit.edu writes:
> 
> > I think this has been asked before, but what are some
> > universities offering Multimedia major degrees?

I don't know the exact name of the degrees, but the MIT Media Lab offers
degrees that might fit what you are looking for. Much of their work is
heavily involved in multimedia.

 (I think the degrees are actually through the School of Architecture,
believe it or not.)

Jonathan Rosenberg
From: michael.langthorne.1@nd.edu
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: QT - HyperCard
Date: 14 Sep 92 21:41:05 GMT
Followup-To: comp.multimedia
Organization: University of Notre Dame

Does anyone know where to get the XCMDs that allow QuickTime movies to play
within a HyperCard card?  I keep hearing/seeing discussion, but no one
seems to know the whereabouts, and some say it can't happen until the new
version of HyperCard.

New version of HyperCard?  Geez, that would be great.  I find myself
starting to look longingly at ToolBook.
From: grossnik@iam.unibe.ch (Bruno Grossniklaus)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Street Price: IconAuthor
Date: 7 Sep 92 16:12:33 GMT
Reply-To: grossnik@iam.unibe.ch
Organization: Dept. of CS, University of Berne, Switzerland

Hi there

Whats the street price of the Icon Author software in US?

Thanks a lot

Bruno Grossniklaus

grossnik@iam.unibe.ch
From: hgschulz@gaia.cs.umass.edu (Henning Schulzrinne)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: DECstation audio/XMedia
Date: 8 Sep 92 14:12:02 GMT
Reply-To: hgschulz@gaia.cs.umass.edu (Henning Schulzrinne)
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst

In article <28817@sophia.inria.fr> huitema@mitsou.inria.fr (Christian Huitema) writes:
>In article <1992Sep7.152506.24097@PA.dec.com> Burkhard Neidecker-Lutz writes:
>> In article <28622@sophia.inria.fr> huitema@mitsou.inria.fr (Christian Huitema) writes:
>< 
>> >Hell, we wanted a simple analog/digital converter
>< >that would enable us to input output voice and we are delivered a "sound
>> >processing system" that cannot work without being intertwined with X-Window
>< >and MOTIF. 
>> 
>< Of course the audio software can be used without X and Motif if you wish
>> so, that is the whole point of using a separate audio server in the first
>< place. I agree that the toolkit that is shipped with XMedia Tools in Version
>> 1.1 in fact *is* linked to X and Motif, forcing you to use the somewhat
>< clumsier Alib interface instead. But it certainly is doable and the
>> XMedia Tools Developers Kit certainly comes with complete sample programs
>< that do all of this (without X).
>
>Except one little detail. The first thing that "audioserver" does is to try to
>connect to the local X server, and it aborts if it cannot.
>
... (omitted) ...
>Christian Huitema

One more little detail: It doesn't work. While XMedia may be a superb
tool for playing sound bites for a multimedia kiosk or such, we have not
been able to get it (Version 1.1, that is), to work in anything
approaching real-time. We need to read audio data in 22.5 ms chunks for
delay reasons and the XMedia alib interface doesn't seem to be able to
handle that type of call frequency and leave processing power for other
system chores. I have heard claims that Version 1.1 would fix that, but
have seen no working code. We share Christian Huitema frustration. The
biz.dec.* newsgroup, btw, is no help to us - from what I can tell, it's
a commercial newsgroup not available on this campus. (I'll gladly be
convinced otherwise.)
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Dept. of CS and Dept. of ECE; Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst
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From: ag129@cl.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: MPEG
Date: 14 Sep 92 11:08:54 GMT
Reply-To: ag129@cl.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant)
Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK

In article <XNX60YF@zelator.in-berlin.de> leo@zelator.in-berlin.de (Stefan Hartmann) writes:
>BTW, there is a free player called MPEGXING.LZH which works on the PC
>under win3.x

... but not with some popular graphics cards, in my experience.

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

I did! I'm sure it's excellent software, but it doesn't work on my machine.
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: jechawke@unix2.tcd.ie (Lone Rider)
Subject: JPEG and MPEG info request
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 00:41:35 GMT





  

Hi there.
Apologies if these topics have already been discussed - I have been away for a  few months.
If anybody could give me information about JPEG and MPEG formats and standards
(if any exist ) I'd be very grateful. I'm writing a piece of software (animation) and would like to try and incorporate these formats into my code, using 
either C, C++ or Assembly Language on the PC.

Thanks in advance for your help,
jonathan.


--
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From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Multimedia conferencing
Date: 11 Sep 92 13:56:12 +1200
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

In article <1992Sep10.151711.1693@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>, bell@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Dave Bell) writes:
> Multimedia conferencing
>
> I would like to think that TCP/IP (ie MacTCP) could be used to squirt
> QuickTime format audio/video over the ethernet from Macintosh to
> Macintosh (all be they very fast and hardware assisted Macs)  I have yet
> to get involved in the details of such a task - does anyone have
> experiences of using MacTCP to shift QuickTime in real-time????

For most multimedia data, I'd say timeliness of delivery is more important
than reliability of delivery. That is, if you're taking too long delivering
one packet, you drop it and go on to the next one.

In terms of existing network protocol stacks, that means using a datagram-
oriented protocol (UDP or AppleTalk DDP), rather than a connection-oriented
one (TCP, ADSP). This also means lower overall network overhead.

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
From: DonD@cup.portal.com (Don Robert DeCosta)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Sony LANC/Control L
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 22:18:10 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

Looking for info on Sony's LANC/Control L protocol... Any Ideas where to
look?  I would like enough info to write software drivers for it without
a V-Box (or at least enough info to try!)

DonD@cup.portal.com
From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: multi-platform authoring system
Date: 8 Sep 92 09:30:14 +1200
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

In article <2wsPqB1w165w@tsoft.sf-bay.org>, bbs.peter@tsoft.sf-bay.org (Peter Blum) writes:
>        I have not used this but I have heard that Macromind Action is
> good. There are versions for Windows ( On CD-ROM or Disks) and for the
> macintosh. With the up and coming Windows NT there should be a lot more
> MM aps for the PC that are on the mac now such as Macromind Director,
> Macromind Macromedia and others.

Just a note: "MacroMedia" isn't a software product, it's the name of a
software company. That company was produced by the merger of AuthorWare
and MacroMind/ParaComp (itself the product of a merger). Thus there is
no such product as "Macromind Macromedia", while "MacroMind Director" should
probably now be called "MacroMedia Director".

In the meantime, it's amusing to note that, if you want to create animations
for playback with the Windows Multimedia Extensions, you have to do it on a
Mac...

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
Ask not for whom the phone rings; it rings for you.
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: cs902125@ariel.yorku.ca (SHUK C YIP)
Subject: Re: Buying a multimedia system
Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 23:42:54 GMT

In article <1992Sep4.182640.16397@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> dudley@cebaf4.cebaf.gov (John Dudley) writes:
>
>   1. I see your concern with the smaller Amiga base of users(compared
>to the Mac).  Currently, there are approximately 9 million Macintosh
>users versus 3.5 million Amiga Users.  However, it is a fact that over
>50% of desktop video platforms today are Amiga based.  You may have
>heard of a device called the Video Toaster. It is available to Mac and
>IBM users, but is Amiga based.  If you were to purchase one for a Mac or
>IBM, all you are actually purchasing is an Amiga 2000 with the Video
>Toaster installed in it, and you are connecting the Amiga to the Mac/IBM
>through the parallel port for user control.  The Video Toaster, however,
>was developed for the Amiga computer.
> 

Except Video Toaster, is there any other good video or graphics hardware
for Amiga? I ask that because people keep repeating again and again. Is
this the only one for Amiga?
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia