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From: un040330@wvnvms.wvnet.edu
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: MOTOROLA - Multimedia Chip Set ?
Date: 23 Jul 92 00:40:36 GMT
Organization: West Virginia Network for Educational Telecomputing

Hi netters,
	I  happened to read recently about the release of Multi-Media
Chip Set from Motorola. I would appreciate if someone could let me know further
details like Type No , name etc. I would appreciate if you could send the info.
directly to my email also , since I am not a regular browser of the news
groups. Thanks in advance.

Suresh Nair
West Virginia University
email : nair@coe.wvu.wvnet.edu
	un040330@vaxa.wvnet.edu
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: elting@infix.emp.paed.uni-muenchen.de (Andreas Elting)
Subject: Re: DLLs for CNTRL-P interface for a SONY Videorecorder
Organization: University of Munich
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 07:36:33 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.104701.3588@news.lrz-muenchen.de>, elting@infix.emp.paed.uni-muenchen.de (Andreas Elting) writes:
|> 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?
|> 

Sorry, by mistake I wrote CNTRL-P instead of CNTRL-S / P. I hope
you understood nevertheless.

Andreas
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From: chauhand@sumax.seattleu.edu (Digvijay Chauhan (VJ))
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia,comp.compression
Subject: Info required on SQUAM/IMA test files for audio compression
Summary: test files for audio compression/decompresssion algorithms?
Date: 30 Jul 92 00:37:40 GMT
Organization: Seattle University, Seattle WA

Hi,

Does anybody have any pointers on IMA/IEEE recommended standard
files for testing sound  compression/decompression algorithms?

Some thing called SQUAM is supposed to exist somewhere. Does
some have some info on this?

Thanks
Digvijay
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Newsgroups: comp.multimedia,aus.general
From: smb@col.hp.com (Sam Bauer)
Subject: >>PC CD-ROM Game For Sale: Kings Quest V
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 16:58:46 GMT
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division

PC GAME FOR SALE	

************* Kings Quest V - CDROM Version  **************

This is the CD-ROM version of Kings Quest V by Sierra On-Line.
The game has absolutely beautiful graphics, and is in my opinion
on of Sierra's finest story lines to date.  It truely is an epic
adventure taking from a village, through a desert, to a witches
castle, through snowy mountains, over a sea, and evetually to the
evil wizard Mordack's island and castle.

The CD-ROM version is basically the same as the original, except for
the 125+ Megabytes of sound.  There is little text, and everything
is spoken including things like "Are you sure you want to quit?".

You will need a sound board, and of course, a cd-rom player for this game
It will run on DOS directly or in windows as an Multi-Media program.
When I played on Windows, peculiarly enough, most of the non-player
and background animation was disabled.  Perhaps I mis-configured something,
but I just palyed it under DOS.

The game comes on a CD in a standard plastic CD "jewel box", with all 
documentation in the "liner notes".  I received no other cards or boxes,
etc. - perhaps because I ordered it with my cd-rom player.

I will sell the game for $35.

I will pay shipping.  It will be mailed inside a box with packing.

EMail at smb@col.hp.com or call 1-719-531-4460 (days).

Sam Bauer, Hewlett Packard CTD, Colo. Sprgs CO.
From: avogel@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: AMIGA 2000 SYSTEM 4SALE (MAKE AN OFFER)
Date: 31 Jul 92 02:13:50 GMT
Organization: Wesleyan University

(Sorry in advance for the ad post)
For Sale:
AMIGA 2000 with mouse, keyboard, cables
1084S monitor
2 internal 3.5" floppies
40 Meg Quantum Hard drive DMA Autobooting (11ms) mounted on
GVP SCSI hard drive hard card controller with FaastRom
Workbench 2.04 ROMS installed + disks, manuel, box
AMIGAVISION with original disks manuel box
All above come with original manuels and disks etc.
----------
Make an offer.
First offer over $1395 gets it no questions
Highest offer so far - $1300
E-mail for more info (AVOGEL@EAGLE.WESLEYAN.EDU)
Will deliver and set up in New York City regional area
otherwise UPS COD you pay shipping I pay UPS psick-up service charge
For fast agreement call between 6:30PM and 11:00PM EST.
(212) 548-1394
(212) 796-2091
Ask for Andrew.
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: atreyus@lascar.puc.cl (Marcelo Vasquez IIC)
Subject: Quictime 
Organization: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 21:40:16 GMT

Hi : I was wandering if anyone has any information on quicktime for WINDOWS. I heard somewhere that it is under development. Any news?
Also, does anyone know if it is going to be available soon a full screen Quicktime version?
Thanks for your help.

Marcelo Vasquez R.
atreyus@lascar.puc.cl
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: by411@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Patrick Hoyt)
Subject: New Media
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 03:38:53 GMT


Out of curiousity, is the magazine New Media very widespread? I
read each edition closely and with much interest. Am I the only 
one? Is anyone connected with the magazine present on this message
area?
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: ericr@solbourne.com (Eric Robison)
Subject: Director or Premier??
Organization: Arizona State Home for the Terminally Rude
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 16:23:20 GMT

I need to buy either Director or Premier RSN.  Anybody out there
got any good comparisons?  I called Adobe and asked them why
Premier might be better the Director. They claim they never heard of
Director or Macromind. (yeah, right)

I've played with Premier 1.0 and it seems OK. Adobe says that they've
added a lot of functionality to 2.0 and that it will ship in a few 
weeks.

About the only thing I've heard about Director is that it's real
complex, difficult to use, but it turns out much better work.

Discussion, please?

Thanks!

Eric



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From: chauhand@sumax.seattleu.edu (Digvijay Chauhan )
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: os2 multimedia audio
Keywords: os2, MMPM/2,
Date: 30 Jul 92 00:25:10 GMT
Organization: Seattle University, Seattle WA

From: swix@prism.gatech.edu (SWIX,SCOTT R)

The OS/2 Multimedia Extensions (MMPM/2) provide audio capabilities 
including digital audio capture  & playback, as well as line audio
channel control, volume, bass, etc.

The digital audio interface is via either a string-based language 
or a message based protocol.  Other devices, such as videodisc 
players, MIDI, etc are similarly controlled.  Digital audio does 
require an adapter of some nature, supported by a driver compatible
with the OS/2 MMPM/2 system.  One such is the IBM M-Audio Adapter/A,
as well as a variety of third-party boards with drivers underway.
You can capture and replay in 11K, 22K, or 44K sample rates at 
8 or 16 bit sample sizes.  Depending on the adapter, of couse.
Some support both PCM methods and ADPCM compression, such as the 
IBM M-Audio Adapter.
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IBM Multimedia Product Development
and Georgia Tech
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From: simonofb@wmavm7.VNET.IBM.COM
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 12:57:33 EDT
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: BBN Slate
Reply-To: simonofb@wmavm7.VNET.IBM.COM
Organization: IBM
News-Software: Usenet 3.0

Does anyone know about a product called SLATE by a company called
BBN (Bolt, Beranek, and Newman)????  Slate appears to support text,
graphics, images (still and full-motion), audio, and hypertext.
It can also do this over phone lines for multimedia conference calling.
I am interested in hearing about first hand experiences and opinions.
Can anyone tell me if this compares with GainMomentum?

Robert Simonoff
simonofb@wmavm7.vnet.ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: smb@col.hp.com (Sam Bauer)
Subject: Re: >>PC CD-ROM Game For Sale: Kings Quest V
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 21:37:24 GMT
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division

Thanks for the responses, its gone.
-Sam
From: avconf@cs.ucsd.edu (AV Workshop)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: 3rd Intnl. Workshop on Network and OS Support for Digital Audio & Video
Date: 23 Jul 92 21:00:33 GMT
Organization: CSE Dept., U.C. San Diego



			CALL FOR PAPERS


		THIRD INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON 
	      NETWORK AND OPERATING SYSTEM SUPPORT 
		  FOR DIGITAL AUDIO AND VIDEO

		     November 12-13, 1992
                Sheraton Grande Hotel, La Jolla
		    San Diego, California

             Sponsored by IEEE Communications & Computer Societies
        in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM, ACM SIGOPS and ACM SIGOIS


Technological advances are revolutionizing computers and networks so
as to support digital continuous video and audio, leading to new
design spaces in computer systems and applications.  Under the surface
of exciting multimedia technologies lies a mine of research problems.
This workshop is intended to bring together researchers
in all aspects of multimedia computing, communication, storage, and
applications.

RELEVANT AREAS
--------------
Multimedia Networking and Communication 
Collaboration and Connection Management 
Multimedia Storage and I/O Architectures 
Media Synchronization 
Distributed Multimedia Systems 
Multimedia Programming Paradigms 
Operating System Extensions for Multimedia 
Admission Control and Real-Time Support 
Performance of Multimedia Systems 
Multimedia Applications and Environments
Multimedia Endsystem Architectures


INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING PAPERS
----------------------------------
Authors are requested to submit a 500-2000 word position paper or 
extended abstract of a full paper (in raw, unformatted text) by 
electronic mail to av-workshop@cs.ucsd.edu.  Only if electronic 
submission is impossible, papers may be sent to: 
	P. Venkat Rangan, 
	Multimedia Laboratory, 
	Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, 
	University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, 
	CA 92093-0114, USA.
	Fax: 619-534-7029
	Phone: 619-534-5419 
	E-mail: venkat@cs.ucsd.edu

The proceedings of the workshop will be published by Springer-Verlag,
and the best papers will be forwarded to selected journals for 
publication.


IMPORTANT DATES
---------------

Abstracts due......................... August 15, 1992
Acceptance notification............... September 15, 1992
Final paper due....................... October 15, 1992 


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
-----------------

P. Venkat Rangan, UC San Diego
Program Chair 

Sid Ahuja, AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel 
Gordon Blair, Univ. of Lancaster, U.K. 
Rita Brennan, Apple Computer, Cupertino 
S. Christodoulakis, Tech. Univ. of Crete, Greece 
Flaviu Cristian, UC San Diego 
Domenico Ferrari, UC Berkeley 
Riccardo Gusella, HP Labs, Palo Alto 
Ralf Herrtwich, IBM ENC, Germany 
Andy Hopper, Cambridge, U.K. 
Jim Kurose, Univ. of Mass., Amherst 
Desai Narasimhalu, National Univ. of Singapore 
Duane Northcutt, Sun Labs, Mountain View
Craig Partridge, BBN, Palo Alto 
Jonathan Rosenberg, Bellcore, Morristown 
J.B. Stefani, CNET, France 
David Sincoskie, Bellcore, Morristown 
Daniel Swinehart, Xerox PARC, Palo Alto 
Stephen Casner, ISI, Los Angeles 
David Tennenhouse, M.I.T., Cambridge 
R. Popescu-Zeletin, GMD FOKUS, Berlin
From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Recent QT movies from Sumex
Date: 31 Jul 92 17:00:21 +1200
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

I picked up the following QuickTime movies recently from sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
If you hurry, you may still find them there.

Luxo Jr -- the famous computer-generated animation from Pixar, featuring a
pair of anglepoise lamps and a couple of rubber balls. The image is pretty
small (the credits at the end are just barely legible), but even so the
movie file is about 4.5MB in size.

To the Giant -- an animation inspired by the famous NASA planetary flyby
simulations created by Jim Blinn. This one was done on a Mac with Infini-D
and MacRenderMan.

Monterey currents, early July -- an animated map, showing the changing pattern
of ocean currents in Monterey Bay in California over a period of several days.

MandelMovie -- this one I found fascinating. It's a series of pictures of
the Mandelbrot set, at successively greater magnifications. The guy generated
250 separate images, each at about 10% greater magnification than the previous
one. Play the result back as a movie at 10 frames per second, and you find
yourself falling down into the Mandelbrot world.

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
The best of all possible worlds: WinDOS/2.
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: alyoung@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (amy young)
Subject: Suggestiosn for those of us yet wet behind the ears....
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 19:42:03 GMT

I am new to the world of multimedia, but extremely interested, and am
asking those of you more knowledgable (stroke, stroke) to give any
suggestions for learning tools, resources, etc (besides my hands and
an inquisitive mind, of course) that might speed up my intake of
knowledge.  I have a good base of computers, and working with your
"average" academic user with medium range graphics and such, so this
is a big jump.  

Please, avail me of your knowledge!  *grin*

amy

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Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: aseem@kronos.arc.nasa.gov (Aseem Das)
Subject: Buying a complete Multimedia PC or MAC
Keywords: Multimedia Authoring Systems, Video/Audio Cards, 
Organization: NASA/ARC Information Sciences Division
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 20:33:47 GMT

I am interested in buying a complete multimedia PC or Mac.  I would like
to be able to grab video/TV, compress the grabbed movie togather with
sound, save it on the hard disk and then later be able to play it
as needed. 

Having very little knowledge of multimedia, I would like to know:

1. What hardware do i need (audio boards, video boards, frame grabbers etc.)

2. What software do i need (compression software, multimedia authoring systems)


3. How is the functionality divided between the hardware/software.
For example, Is there hardware which does image/sound compression?

4. What is the compatibility between the different hardware/software
products?  Can i use software X with hardware Y?

5. What excatly does a MMedia authoring system allows you to do.  Is
it like a UI builder, lets you incorporate images/sounds etc. into a
toolkit.  What are some of the good MMedia authoring systems?


Any help would be most appreciated.  Thanks.

- Aseem Das
aseem@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov

Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: stabosz@brahms.udel.edu (Rae Stabosz)
Subject: Help: New Media Graphics Super Video Overlay Card
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 20:25:15 GMT

Help please.  I'm trying to write the simplest Hello World program in  
TookBook v1.53 with MCI Extensions running under Multimedia Windows 3.1.
I want to write a little script to wake up my Pioneer LD-V8000 videodisc player
and play a disc using the New Media Graphics Super Video Windows Overlay card
that I've got installed in my Zenith 386/20.  

When we installed the overlay card in Windows, we used Setup, Drivers
option, and did a regular install off the floppy disk which contained
the oemsetup.inf & the driver for the card, which is svwmci.drv.  The
svwmmi driver in not configurable from Setup, but from its own software
configuration program, vconfig.exe.  In vconfig we specified as a 
videodisc driver mcivpion.drv, an mci driver for the
Pioneer which we obtained elsewhere.  (We also tried specifying
pnr4200.drv, the driver that came with the overlay card.  Didn't
seem right to specify a non-mci driver though if we wanted to use
the mci hooks.) We set it for Source=laserdisc, com1 port, and 9600
baud, all of which is as it should be.

Under [mci] in system.ini we've got overlay=svwmci.drv, and
videodisc=mcivpion.drv com1: 9600.  The overlay entry was created
by Setup, the videodisc entry we entered by hand due to having no
oemsetup.inf for the Pioneer mci driver.

I'm using the tbkMCI function to call various commands from the mci
command set in ToolBook.  I'm using sysERRORnumber after each mci
command call to check errors.  I can get it to say that it is opening
the videodisc or the overlay, and it does wake up the videodisc some
of the time.  Most of the time though, immediately after I

get tbkMCI("open videodisc shareable","")

I get a message saying Operation failed.  Improper laserdisc DLL for
Source1 overlay.

There's a video.ini file which has under [Sources] Source1=Laserdisc.
And under [Source1] it has Signal-NTSC, Active=YES, Control=COM1:, and
DLL=mcivpion.drv.

Is anybody kind enough to look through all this & offer some advice?
It should not be that hard to make the overlay board show the video.
New Media Graphics is trying to help but they are not a lot of help.

Rae

Distribution: 
Organization: University of Delaware
Keywords: 


Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: jmj5g@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (John M. Jackson)
Subject: Re: Director or Premier??
Organization: University of Virginia
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 12:35:30 GMT

ericr@solbourne.com  writes:
> I need to buy either Director or Premier RSN.  Anybody out there
> got any good comparisons?  I called Adobe and asked them why
> Premier might be better the Director. They claim they never heard of
> Director or Macromind. (yeah, right)
> 
> I've played with Premier 1.0 and it seems OK. Adobe says that they've
> added a lot of functionality to 2.0 and that it will ship in a few 
> weeks.
> 
> About the only thing I've heard about Director is that it's real
> complex, difficult to use, but it turns out much better work.
> 
I have and use both Director & Premier.  The packages are meant
to do entirely diferent things.  Premier is just for editing
Quicktime movies.  Director is designed to develop
2D animations/presentations and output them in several file
formats, one of which is Quicktime.  Director also has its own
versatile scripting language, Lingo.  It is possible to edit a
Quicktime movie in Premier and then integrate it into a much
larger, interactive program developed in Director.

Hope this helps.
--
John Jackson                            jmj5g@galen.med.virginia.edu
Office of Medical Education             jmj5g@virginia.edu
University of Virginia                  (804)924-5839
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: soam@freyja.cs.cornell.edu (Soam Acharya)
Subject:  Convert 4:1:1 YUV data to RGB
Keywords:  Image Compression, YUV, RGB
Reply-To: soam@freyja.cs.cornell.edu (Soam Acharya)
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 21:16:49 GMT


Greetings all,

Can anyone point me towards a reference that explains how to convert
4:1:1 subsampled YUV data to RGB? 

I'll be happy to provide more details if necessary.  I am planning on
using the Sun VideoPix board to implement some sort of rudimentary
moving picture capture/display facility and I'd rather not use the
Sun VideoPix software libraries for the sake of portability and
curiosity - I want to know how this image conversion is done.

Any help will be greatly appreciated

Soam

PS -	Before anyone asks, I've tried comp.graphics
	and comp.sys.sun.wanted, so far with no success.


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From: kemnitz@netcom.com (Greg Kemnitz)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Yeah!  Multimedia!  Way Cool!
Date: 21 Jul 92 22:04:50 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

Today I heard an ad on the local all-news station about something that lets
you run TV on a PC - "Now I can watch the Giants game on my PC!"  Oh boy!
So many multimedia marketeers seem to have the multihype and multisleaze on
full-bore that it's no wonder multimedia has about as much credibility with
people who actually pay money for things for real use as Congress.

The next time I hear an ad sounding like: "It's Bob, Biff, and Dave down here
at the multimedia center waiting to take your money for something useless!  Oh
Boy!" I will scream :-(

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MultiMedia Information Systems Inc. | didn't want to be killed by a pile
kemnitz@netcom.com                  | of VMS manuals" :-)
                                    |
                                    | --A friend at DEC Palo Alto in the Quake
From: rhyde@ucrmath.ucr.edu (randy hyde)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Director or Premier??
Date: 31 Jul 92 16:37:13 GMT
Distribution: usa

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?

As mentioned (probably a dozen times by now) these are two completely
separate products.  I've done animation with both.  Director is definitely
the better of the two- Premier is too simplistic and weak for anything
much beyond "Gee-Whiz" Video Spigoted movies.  I haven't used v2.0 yet,
but it would have to be an enormous upgrade to make it come close to
director.  Another advantage to Director is that it lets you create
interactive presentations.  Premier does not (at least as best I can  
tell).
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: jmj5g@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (John M. Jackson)
Subject: Re: New Media
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 14:16:15 GMT

by411@cleveland.Freenet.Edu  writes:
> 
> Out of curiousity, is the magazine New Media very widespread? I
> read each edition closely and with much interest. Am I the only 
> one? Is anyone connected with the magazine present on this message
> area?

I read it thoroughly and find it to be one of the most useful
mags in the field.  I dropped my expensive subscription to
"Multimedia & Videodisc Monitor" since New Media has come out.
--
John Jackson                            jmj5g@galen.med.virginia.edu
Office of Medical Education             jmj5g@virginia.bitnet
University of Virginia                  (804)924-5839