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From: jc@optimla.aimla.com (John VanHoozer)
Subject: CD-I and 3" cd technology
Organization: OptImage Interactive Services Co., L.P.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:54:57 GMT

Ok.  I've tried to do this discreetly -  Now I'll ask the world

We have an idea to produce a short promotional title (hopefully)
for the upcoming CDISK conference.  Our idea was to produce the 
CD-I disk on a 3" sized (CD-single) cd.  This would fit easily into
customer pockets and the sleeve would be printed with our business
card.

I find nothing in the green book that prohibits the 3" media and I have
determined that the 3" disks (audio) will play in 910, 605, and 180 
CD-I players (if you use suitable adapters in the 180/605).  I have
also found out that Sony (who introduced/championed) the 3" disc
may have a 3" worm burner but I can find no one who uses one.

Is it possible that a 5.25" worm can be created and during pressing
have the title contents transferred to the smaller media?  Is
it possible to create 3" CD-I discs?

			jc

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From: english@newton.apple.com (Gary English)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: QuickTime - PICS conversion software
Date: 26 Jan 93 01:11:27 GMT
Followup-To: comp.multimedia
Organization: Apple Computer

In article <C1BI8s.22F@world.std.com>, tfish@world.std.com (Tex Fish)
wrote:
> 
> 	I'm looking for some Mac software that'll convert between
> QuickTime, PICS and whatever other formats.  I'm pretty sure MacroMind
> Director will do it, but that's a little much just for the conversion.

Apple's QuickTime Starter Kit includes the _Movie Converter_ app,
I quote chapter and verse....


To convert a PICS animation file to a QuickTime movie:  

1. In Movie Converter, choose Open 
    from the File menu.

2. In the dialog box, choose the PICS 
    file you wish to convert.

3. Click Open.

    The file opens in a conversion 
    window. You can use the scroll 
    bar at the bottom of this window 
    to view the images in the file. 




   Gary English, Continuous Improvement Engineer
        Apple Computer Inc, Newton Software
20525 Mariani Ave., ms301-2c, Cupertino, CA, 95014

  408.974.5148.phone   english@newton.apple.com
  408.974.6064.fax    ENGLISH1@AppleLink.apple.com
From: ron_s@verifone.com
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: PAS and Corel SCSI drivers
Date: 27 Jan 93 15:16:27 -1000
Organization: VeriFone Inc., Honolulu HI

   Please help:

1. SCSI question--I have a Proaudio 16 setup with SCSI interface to the
                  NEC84 internal CD player. Now I want to extend the
                  SCSI port to accept a DAT backup drive, externally.

                  I have ordered the SCSI external adapter for the card
                  abd purchased Corel SCSI software for the DDS tape drive
                  driver.   Now Corel SCSI does not recognize my PAS
                   board as a SCSI device...so huh??? I,m stuck..

aloha net workers and lurkers

Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: ltwaugh@amy0.stanford.edu (Lawrence Taylor Waugh)
Subject: Movie Magic
Keywords: movie magic software
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 02:23:14 GMT

Has anyone heard of the software package "Movie Magic?"  It's supposed to  
help you plan a movie - i.e. schedule shootings, work budgets, etc.

I have a friend who wants to buy (that's right, BUY) a copy, so if anyone  
could provide me with the publisher's or distributor's name, I'd be  
eternally grateful.

Thanks,

lawrence@cs.Stanford.edu
From: bwm0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Brian Maurer)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Sound Driver to simulate Sound Card???
Date: 23 Jan 93 04:44:13 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

Fellow Users;

    I am looking for a software sound driver that will simulate an installed
    sound card and allow .WAV files to be played out the pc speaker.  More
    specifically, I am using Windows 3.1 and want to hear the sounds w/out
    having to buy a $150 card.....

    Any suggestions?

    
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Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: drake@dragon.cpe.ulowell.edu (Frank Drake)
Subject: Re: Problem with MPEG standard no.
Organization: University of Massachusetts Lowell
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:06:36 GMT

In article <C12A4H.7GB@optimla.aimla.com> ken@optimla.aimla.com (Ken Ellinwood) writes:

>   Roger Packwood wonders what the correct document number for the ISO MPEG
>   spec is.  Lets see here ... the first page says:
>
>   ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29 N 147
>   Date: 1992 April 20
>
>   I believe the document number is SC 29 N 147.  Hope this helps.

SC 29 N 147 isn't the document number. SC 29 is the subcommittee and... I
really have no idea what N 147 is (sorry). But the document number is
definitely ISO/IEC CD 11172-1. The reason that Roger did not find this
in his catalog is that this document is currently in Committee Draft
stage (that's the _CD_ in the document number). I think that once a document
hits CD, you can only buy it through ANSI or ISO (or become an active member
of the committee ;-). When it is a standard, it will be referred to as
IS11172:199x, where 199x is the year that it became an ISO Information
Standard.

Whew!

BTW: I have nothing to do with MPEG, but it is referenced in another
ISO document that I happened to have on my desk.

Frank

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University of Massachusetts Lowell
Center for Productivity Enhancement                               (508)934-2630
Lowell, Massachusetts 01854                        drake@dragon.cpe.ulowell.edu
From: lar@engr.LaTech.edu (Layne A. Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: M-Audio Capture & Playback Loop-Thru pgm needed
Date: 27 Jan 1993 15:42:54 GMT
Organization: Louisiana Tech University
NNTP-Posting-Host: rigel.engr.latech.edu
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

A friend of mine says that one way that he knows of that will do it without an extra pgm
is to go into MMPM/2 (OS/2) and open the audio driver.  Then just play the LDisk.
I can't vouch for this personally, but it's worth a try.


Layne
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: lapena@athena.cs.uga.edu (Chito)
Subject: Video Blaster
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:23:28 GMT


I am eagerly awaiting my Video Blaster developer's kit but would
anyone happen to know right off the sequence of instructions (asm) to
dump video data (as well as its format) into a memory buffer?

thanks

-chito

lapena@athena.cs.uga.edu
From: ncpmont@angelo.amd.com (Mark Montgomery)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: XA Multisession cd rom yet?
Date: 25 Jan 93 03:54:55 GMT
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Santa Clara, CA

In article <1993Jan21.032418.5675@infonode.ingr.com> bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown) writes:
>Is there an xa multisession CD rom drive with a scsi interface
>that can be hooked up to a PC?  I see lots of XA drives
>but no multisession ones.  I heard Nec was going to make
>a CDR-75 which was supposed to be a multisession version
>of the 74, but I haven't seen anything about it.
>
The Toshiba 3401 is out and shipping at ~$500 retail, the Toshiba
3301 can be upgraded by the factory to multisession capable for ~$90.
				Mark

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Newsgroups: inf.conferences,comp.multimedia
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 14:47:48 EST
From: <DJACOBS@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Sound Driver to simulate Sound Card???

The WINDOWS MULTIMEDIA book from QUE publishing has software included with it
which may suit your purposes. It is a windows PC speaker driver. I don't know
how well it works. It is also available at COMPUSERVE GO WINDOWS or MICROSOFT,
I think.  It slows your system down tremendously. I'd like to know how it
works. Thanks.
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 14:41:54 EST
From: <DJACOBS@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Mediavision "Fusion CD 16" question

I've discussed with MV tech support who told me that fusioncd 16 has the PAS 16
 card. There is one difference, however.  The PAS16 in the fusion kit has a
different connection for power. Note throughout the documentation that fusion
cd and fusion cd 16 are distinguished from one another in just the ways that
PAS PLUS and PAS 16 differ. Is this clear? I don't think so.
Bye.
From: mtrachsel@sgcl1.unisg.ch
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: HELP on Overlay or framegrabbing card
Date: 28 Jan 93 14:31:18 GMT
Organization: University of St.Gallen, Switzerland

I am looking for a video-overlay or framegrabbing card,
that is doing at least the following things:
- Live video in a Window in realtime in fore- as well
  as in the background.
- Grabbing of a single screen as graphic file
- Recording AVI-Files, so I can play them with the
  new AVI-Mediaplayer in Windows.
- Support of all resolutions and colormodes of
  the graphiccard (Hicolor,Truecolor,256,1024x768,800x600)
- Should not have any problems with my 16 or 32 MByte Ram already
  on my systems.
- ISA-Bus slot
- Sound support is not required because I 've already
  have an soundblaster Pro.

Does anybody have any experience with these kind of
cards or can give me some advices what to buy. Price
can be as high as $ 1000. 

There is one more problem. My graphiccard has no featureconnector
to connect any internal devices. So if exist I prefer a videocard
that only uses the vga-loop-cable but I am not sure whether this 
can be or not, so maybe I buy a new card.

Thank you very much for your help

Markus
From: babb@sciences.sdsu.edu (J. Babb)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: M-Audio Capture & Playback Loop-Thru pgm needed
Date: 26 Jan 93 22:13:44 GMT
Followup-To: comp.multimedia
Organization: SDSU - LARC
NNTP-Posting-Host: larc.sdsu.edu

Hi folks,
 Our school just got an IBM UltiMedia system
It comes with a M-Audio Capture & Playback adapter. Lacking an amp and
speakers, I want to pass audio from a laserdisc player to the card and have
the card route to the computer systems speaker. There's a test pgm that'll
do this loop-thru, but of course as soon as you quit the pgm...silence.
So, be on the look out!!     Thanx in advance.
Jeff.
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: dwahl@teal.csn.org (David Wahl)
Subject: Video Card recommendation?
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 04:14:22 GMT

We are getting ready to move from Unix into the world of PC multimedia.
I have been a little dismayed at the horror stories about quality of
equipment and support available for the various PC audio products, but
we gotta make the plunge.

I've narrowed the list of video frame grabbers we're interested in
to the Video Blaster (reports about Creative Labs quality are not
encouraging), Actionmedia II, and the Video Spigot for Windows.  
The codec reported to be on the Spigot looks useful, but there's a
degree of safety in buying into the Video-For-Windows/Actionmedia
IBM/MS/Intel middle-of-the-road philosophy.

Any comments on which video card you'd choose for development 
gratefully received (and I'm willing to share experiences).

Thanks,
Dave Wahl
From: Achim Voermanek <voer@rz.uni-sb.de>
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Interactive TV and Newspapers
Date: 28 Jan 1993 12:14:20 GMT
Organization: University of the Saarland
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: pfmac01.phil15.uni-sb.de
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X-XXMessage-ID: <A78E5FBA4D01520E@pfmac01.phil15.uni-sb.de>
X-XXDate: Fri, 29 Jan 93 12:14:50 GMT

Hello,

for my final thesis in information science in Saarbruecken, Germany, I
need some information about projects in the USA working with
interactive TV and newspapers. Especially I'm interested in evaluations
(e.g. comparisons with traditional media, user acceptance, inerface
design).

Can someone name me Universities or media firms, that are working in this
business? 

Are there any articles in MM Journals concerning the use of MM-systems 
for distributing public informations (perhaps the Newspeek System at the
MIT?)

Please send your information direct to my mail adress.

Thank you in advance

Achim Voermanek
University of the Saarland
Department of Information Science
Achim Voermanek
D-6600 Saarbruecken
e-mail: voer@rz.uni-sb.de
From: cja@castle.ed.ac.uk (C Adie)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: DISTRIBUTED MULTIMEDIA SURVEY
Summary: Available now!
Date: 27 Jan 93 10:48:34 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University


                      SURVEY OF NETWORKED MULTIMEDIA
                      ------------------------------

The survey of distributed multimedia comissioned by RARE, for which
information was solicited recently, has been completed.  The final
survey report is called:

"A Survey of Distributed Multimedia Research, Standards and Products",
First Edition, 25 January 1993. 

The final report contains responses received up to 22 January 1993.  It
is over 150 pages long, and contains information on over 50 research
projects, 40 standards and 35 products. 

By agreement with the chair of the RARE Multimedia Working Group, the
survey report is now available by anonymous ftp.  It may be found on:

           ftp.ed.ac.uk         129.215.146.5

in directory

           pub/mmsurvey

in files:

 mmsurvey.doc         Word for Windows 2 document (binary)
 mmsurvey.doc.Z       Compressed Word for Windows 2 document (binary)
 mmsurvey.ps          Postscript of document (ascii)
 mmsurvey.ps.Z        Compressed postscript of document (binary)
 mmsurvey.txt         Text form of document (ascii)
 mmsurvey.txt.Z       Compressed text form of document (binary)

Chris Adie                                   Phone:  +44 31 650 3363
Edinburgh University Computing Service       Fax:    +44 31 662 4809
University Library, George Square            Email:  C.J.Adie@edinburgh.ac.uk
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ, United Kingdom
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 21:38:02 EST
From: P.J. O'Connell <P1O@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Sound Source question

There was some traffic here some time back about Sound Source audio card(?)
as part of a Disney game, "Dick Tracy." Anyone know if the format used in
this system is compatable with other sound files, etc., especially .WAV
files (or something that will convert to .WAV)?  THNX/PJO
From: stealth@wet.UUCP (James Yin)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: adult video on CD for computers
Date: 21 Jan 93 06:54:51 GMT
Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco
From: steve_krause@qm.sri.com (Steve Krause)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: When to expect MPEG hardware?
Date: 23 Jan 93 01:33:50 GMT
Followup-To: comp.multimedia
Organization: SRI International

In article <727706283snz@chaz.demon.co.uk>, Ashley@chaz.demon.co.uk
(Charles Ashley) wrote:

> I've seen C-Cube's MPEG board running on a PC delivering MPEG sound and
> video at 150kb/sec.  It looked really good; the chips and board are avaliable
> now I believe.  

One thing to keep in mind is that, although MPEG1 decoders are starting to
appear, MPEG1 *encoding* has been very slow to develop. Because the
potential mass market is in the decoders, most vendors seemed to have
treated the encoding part as an afterthought. Therefore, MPEG1 encoding
technology is well behind the decoding hardware. Today, the only MPEG1
encoding solutions available are either relatively low quality or are
extremely expensive and nowhere near real time (between 50 and 400 times
real time is typical).

This situation is important because the quality of an MPEG1 decoder is
largely dependent on how well the encoding was done. Much of the stuff
shown in demos is the result of painstakingly optimized encoding (manual
insertion of I frames, very thorough motion-vector searching), which will
not be economically feasible for many users. In essence, those great
looking MPEG1 demos that most people have seen at trade shows probably
represent the upper bound for MPEG1 performance. It remains to be seen what
the standard will do in the real world.

C-Cube and a number of other companies are working on real-time and
near-real-time MPEG1 encoders for 1993, but there are sure to be
cost/quality tradeoffs. Therefore, although a decoder may look good in one
demo, it may look substantially worse with differently coded material. The
key is the encoding.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Steve Krause, SRI International, 333 Ravenswood Ave., Menlo Park, CA 94025
Phone: 415-859-4746  Fax: 415-859-4544  Internet: steve_krause@qm.sri.com
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: tfish@world.std.com (Tex Fish)
Subject: QuickTime-PICS conversion
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 05:34:47 GMT

	I realizeed I should have specified: I meant conversion from
QuickTime back to PICS, not vice versa.

-- 
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From: larry@tweety.cs.berkeley.edu (Larry Rowe)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Digitial video hardware for Sun?
Date: 27 Jan 1993 16:51:26 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley EECS Dept.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: larry@cs.Berkeley.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: tweety.cs.berkeley.edu
Keywords: digital video Sun

In article <1993Jan13.003258.8518@cc.gatech.edu>, dada@cc.gatech.edu (Michael Pearce) writes:
|> Is there any commercial hardware for capture and display of MPEG (or
|> other digital video standards) on Sun workstations? ...

I am unaware of any MPEG hardware boards for the Sun.  We have the Parallax
XVIDEO board with a C^3 CL550 chip (JPEG) that we've been working with
for over a year.  The board is expensive (approx. $7.5K), but it works ok.
There is another board form another vendor that appears to be about the
same in performance and cost.

I'm the leader of the group that wrote the Berkeley MPEG software.  I'm
anxious to try it on the CL550 using the chip to decode the I-frames,
and doing the other frames in software.  My sense is that this should 
work very well.

We don't yet have public domain MPEG encoder software.  There are some
commercial software packages coming (e.g., from North Valley Research
contact toddb@nvr.com and mertan@netcom.com), and you can buy both
mpeg sequences and coder/decoder from C^3 but it is hard to get them
to talk to you.  I have also been told that several other systems exists 
but they have not been distributed yet.

So, the bottom line is that some pieces are available, they are expensive
if commercial, and more are coming.
	Larry
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: Ashley@chaz.demon.co.uk (Charles Ashley)
Subject: Re: When to expect MPEG hardware? 
Distribution: world
Organization: Learned Information (Europe) Ltd.
Reply-To: ashley@chaz.demon.co.uk
X-Mailer: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.19)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 12:38:03 +0000

In article <1993Jan13.145754.15102@ulrik.uio.no> erling.maartmann-moe@nr.no writes:

>Does anoybody know when MPEG hardware can be expected from companies like
>C-Cube, Parallax, RasterOps or others? I am particularly interested in
>hardware for SUN, but also Mac/PC.
>
>Erling Maartmann-Moe
>Norwegian Computing Center
>P.O. Box 114, Blindern
>0314 Oslo, Norway
>

I've seen C-Cube's MPEG board running on a PC delivering MPEG sound and
video at 150kb/sec.  It looked really good; the chips and board are avaliable
now I believe.  SGS Thompson has recently announced it is bringing out a 
MPEG chip, but it isn't avaliable yet to my knowledge.

Last week AMD and C-Cube announced that they will share technology, with the
aim of embedding MPEG/JPEG/Px64 into the CPU!!  This won't happen next week,
but maybe in a year of so we'll see something on the market.  What is certain
in terms of timing is that MPEG/Digital video scene is happening quickly.


Try calling C-Cube directly :

1778 McCarthy Blvd.
Milpitas  CA  95035
tel (408)944-8106
fax. (408)944-6314

Hope this helps.  Regards,
Charles.

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From: musa@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu (Jafar Musa - Business Faculty)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: media-objects database
Date: 23 Jan 93 22:03:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: serval.1993Jan23.220354.28399
Organization: Washington State University
Originator: musa@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu

Hello there;
We are looking for a platform that allows us to create, store,
delete and manipulate media objects.

What we are really looking for is a platform to support classroom instructions
and bring MM to the class room.
Faculty should be able (or assisted since faculty tend to refuse to learn)
to create presentations by adding modifying or retrieving media objects.
We are looking for a multi-user platform and possibly a distributed one where
different departments maintain their objects, while there is capabilities to 
share their objects with different dept.
An excellent platform will be a distributed one with a centralized valid set
of commonly needed objects across depts.
Some how we should be able to build presentation systems on top.
Any ideas or info will be greatly appreciated

musa@wsuaix.csc.wsu
Washington State Univ.
From: rhyde@ucrengr.ucr.edu (randy hyde)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: QuickTime - PICS conversion software
Date: 27 Jan 93 17:56:40 GMT
Organization: University of California, Riverside

Cinemation will let you convert between PICS, Quicktime, and their
own format.  Maybe Premier will as well (don't remember since I don't
really need to do it).  Director certain converts PICS -> QT, I would
suppose the other direction is possible as well though I haven't tried
it.

Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: cat@eecom.gatech.edu (Huy Cat)
Subject: CD Speedway (any good?)
Organization: Computer Engineering Group, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332-0250
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:49:23 GMT

I'm looking for ways to speed up my CDROM player.  Is CD Speedway as good
as it claims?  How well does CD Speedway work with Smartdrv?  Any other
opinion is welcomed.  Thanks.

-- 
Huy Cat (cat@eecom.gatech.edu)
School of Electrical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology