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From: nap42487@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Nishith A. Patel)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Multimedia PC requirements.
Date: 15 Apr 92 00:55:49 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip 'AdaX' Sauls) writes:
>>Also, like CDTV and CD-I, it does not have any provisions for motion
>> video, something I and many consider important. (CDTV has a very limited
>> format just quarter screen 10 fps using it's 4096 colors.)

>Why do you insist on spreading your misinformation everywhere?  Have you ever
>seen a CDTV?  The "format" you refer to is CDXL and it is 1/3 screen at 12 fps.
>As to the number of colors, it supports 4096 using standard hardware and up
>to 2-4M colors (NTSC) using the DCTV add on.

Don't tell that to me. Tell that to the Amiga magazine I got this information
STRAIGHT OUT OF..

>CDTV and CDI do much more with ~8MHz 68000s than an MPC with 386sx and all
>of the "multimedia" add-ons like VGA, SoundBlaster, and CDROM.

In your opinion. I d not think the speed is all that important for the things
these three things do. Perhaps the only advantage of requiring a 386 is
so the Windows can use the 386 capabilities. (remember that many 286-16's are
as fast as a 386SX at 16 MHz. So why not allow them in this standard?)

>> MPC should include some kind of provision for DVI, and the price for
>> DVI should come down. This is the best way to go for multimedia of the
>> future.

>Ha!  Just like the 486 is the best way to go for architectures of the future.
>Are you getting paid by Intel to spread propaganda across the net?

Touchy, touchy, touchy. I am talking about multimedia for IBM's, which is
what this thread was about before you brought your Amiga propaganda into it.
I am not implying the Amiga should be abandoned in favor of DVI. And when
did I say the 486 is the way to go for architectures of the future? I never
said that (in fact, the 586 is probably a better choice, when it comes out.)
Maybe RISC is the way to go. Who knows? (excuse me for getting touchy, but
let's stick to the point of the threads. Leave the propoganda in advocacy or
a thread that calls for it.)

Nish Patel  nap42487@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
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From: wherry@alazif.cxn.dec.com (Colorado Cyberpunk)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Frame by Frame on videodisc
Keywords: videodisc
Date: 15 Apr 92 19:14:07 GMT
Reply-To: wherry@hootus.cxn.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Colorado Springs, Co



We use a Panasonic TQ3031F Optical Disk Recorder, it has a bunch of inputs,
S-VHS, RGB, Composite etc.  Same for outputs.  It uses cartridges that are
quite large (Laserdisc size, plus a plastic outer shell to protect the media
from accidents.)  You can't play normal laser discs in it unfortunately.  Each
side stores 30 minutes at 30 fps.  The model number for the cartridges is
TQFH332. I don't know what the Recorder costs.  The cost for the media is
$395.00 per cartridge.

brad

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  bradley g wherry    |    Multimedia Research (IGOR)
                      |    HOOTUS::wherry
                      |    wherry@hootus.cxn.dec.com

   Ex ignorantia ad sapientiam; e luce ad tenebras.
From: Sean.Levy@cs.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: FAQ
Date: 6 Apr 92 15:33:08 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Sorry to waste the bandwidth, but is there an FAQ for this list? In
particular, I'm interested in pricing/evaluating MultiMedia hardware for
Unix workstation platforms (Sun and DEC, mainly). I've seen various
posts go by, but most everything seems to be about the Mac and DOS
worlds.

Of course, I'll summarize if requested.

Cheers,
    -- Sean

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Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry Jones)
Subject: Re: Philips CD-ROM writer
Keywords: CD-ROM Philips
Organization: UTCS Public Access
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 15:15:47 GMT

>    Anyone have a number for Philips -- I need some info
>    on their CD-ROM writer.  Are there any other CD-ROM
>    writers in the price range ($5,000-$6,000 I think) of 
>    the one from Philips?

I think that Sony, Yamaha, Philips and JVC all have CD-ROM write
once drives. Apparently the Yamaha one can do audio CD's too.
As fer that price quote, I think I saw the JVC listed at
$3800. It is a 5.25 1/2 height format drive!

tj
From: Mark_Skaff@softworx.access (Mark Skaff)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Multimedia PC requirements.
Distribution: world
Date: 10 Apr 92 23:24:41 PST
Organization: Subterrainian Softworx BBS

Can someone tell me what is necessary to have an IBM compatible MPC? (eg.
Compact_Disc-ROM, requirements, sound, etc) I have heard many things, most
of which are probably "vapourware".

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Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: thschulz@leland.Stanford.EDU (Thomas Schulz)
Subject: When/where MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCE?
Organization: Stanford University, Graduate School of Business
Distribution: ba
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 20:57:24 GMT


I am not sure if I've missed the major multimedia event that (I suppose)
was planned to take place in San Francisco.

Any idea, whether that will take place (where, when?)

Please reply by mail,

Tom
From: kjellr@sofus.dhhalden.no (Kjell Are Refsvik)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Multimedia magazines?
Date: 6 Apr 92 14:51:07 GMT
Organization: University of Oslo

A couple of months ago I asked was looking for some multimedia-magazines
an posted a question asking if anyone knew of such magazines. Got
some answers and have sent som faxes but none have replied yet. 

Anyway. Have lost the addresses to these magazines and would be grateful if
any of you could give me names of the current multimedia-magazines 
available.

Kjell Are   (Graduate student - Multimedia)
(kjellr@sofus.dhhalden.no)
Xref: sparky comp.multimedia:1328 comp.windows.ms.programmer:5490
From: iroberts@pichem.adelaide.edu.au (Ian Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia,comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Dynamic Link Libraries with Authorware
Summary: They work but not with "double"'s
Date: 14 Apr 92 07:23:11 GMT
Followup-To: comp.multimedia
Organization: Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry, University of Adelaide

Has anybody got any experience with creating Dynamic Link Libraries for use with
Authorware Professional for Windows. I have just succeeded in creating one and
was pleasantly surprised that it wasn't too hard but...

I tried to create a function that returned a double precision floating point
number to AW and had no luck at all! I can create almost identical functions
that return integers and they work fine.

Do I smell a rat (or perhaps a bug)?


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Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: jeng@ipanema..bellcore.com (Fureching Jeng)
Subject: frame grabber for IBM PC
Keywords: frame grabber
Reply-To: jeng@ipanema.UUCP (Fureching Jeng)
Organization: Bellcore MRE
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 92 15:25:43 GMT

I am currently looking for a frame grabber in a PC environment. Does anyone
have any suggestion or recommendation? Any help will be appreciated.


Jeng
From: andrew@calvin.dgbt.doc.ca (Andrew Patrick)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: HELP on IBM Multimedia products
Date: 8 Apr 92 03:26:44 GMT
Organization: Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada

In article <702445705.F00001@asstdc.UUCP> Scot.Art@f634.n712.z3.fido.zeta.org.au (Scot Art) writes:
>If you will be using the ISA version, you also have to connect your hard 
>disk straight to the SCSI connector on the Actionmedia II. An ISA bus does 
>not have the throughput required.

This was not true for the Version I boards, and is probably not true for
the Version II boards.  Myself, and others, run just fine using a
standard ISA disk interface (33 MHZ 386 box).  In fact, I run a 1.2G
SCSI disk through a WD Controller and am still able to do Real-Time
Video (RTV) capture that is acceptable, although I use the standard
drive most of the time.


-- 
Andrew Patrick, Ph.D.       Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, CANADA
andrew@calvin.dgbt.doc.CA
            "Making computers do the things they do on television."
            "Making television do the things that computers do."
From: dmtussey@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Jovian products? Neophyte needs help!
Date: 9 Apr 92 17:18:30 GMT
Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"


 I'm afraid this is the first time I've read this newgroup, so I may be asking
a long dead question. But, I'm looking for reasonable audio and video (motion,
that is) sampling boards for a DOS based '486. I've seen a few ads for the
Jovian Gloria audio board (CD sampling @ $479) but know very little about it.
Does anyone have an informed opinion? Also, what about their MM-Video Board
($745)? I don't know much about these products or their competitors, so any
informed opinions or general guidance would be appreciated...
From: hibbert@xanadu.com (Chris Hibbert)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Xanadu
Date: 13 Apr 92 19:22:59 GMT
Organization: Xanadu Operating Company


>> For the benefit of many of us who have not heard of the Xanadu
>> project, could you please elaborate about what this whole effort is
>> about?  Thanks.
 
>> Ross Erickson

Xanadu is working on a hypermedia database server.  It will support
what we are calling open, social hypermedia.  The database will
support text, bitmaps, sound, video, and animation as well as links
between them all at whatever granularity is desired: from a character
or pixel to a whole library.  Some of the implications of supporting
open, social hypertext are that:

+ multiple users can simultaneously edit documents, 
+ links continue to connect to the same things even as the documents
    at the ends of the link evolve,
+ you can install detectors on documents that will notify you when the
    documents are modified or linked-to, and
+ we support links to information that is stored outside the Xanadu
    repository.  (WAIS and WWW provide this kind of ability)

The project has a long and colorful history, starting with Ted Nelson
coining the terms "hypertext" and "hypermedia" in 1965 or so.  You can
read his recently reissued book, "Computer Lib/Dream Machines" to find
out about his original conception for the global hypertext publishing
system.  (It's available from Microsoft Press.)  What we're actually
building at this point is only a part of Ted's original conception,
though it's designed to be the first stepping stone to the whole
thing.

We're building a hypermedia storage server; the database engine.  It
will require a separate FrontEnd, or User Interface, in order to be
useful.  We'll provide one such FrontEnd, but we really want other
developers to build a variety of application-specific FrontEnds to
exploit our work in many different fields.  We hope to see Xanadu
applications in CASE, CAD, CAE, Medical data storage, legal office,
Group work, image retrieval and manipulation, and many other fields.

The project has been around for quite a while, and has reported being
nearly done many times. :-)  In order to save some face and not
disappoint more people than we already have, I'm not going to make any
predictions about when we'll ship.  We are planning a limited early
non-commercial developer release in a month or two.  If you're
interested in participating, please let me know and I'll send you an
application.  We'll also accept applications from commercial sites,
though we won't release to them until we get satisfactory results from
earlier rounds.


Chris Hibbert
Manager of Software Development
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hibbert@xanadu.com                      AMIX:    CHibbert
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Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: Multimedia PC requirements.
Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 01:22:52 GMT

In article <1992Apr12.182056.9850@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> berger@atropa (Mike Berger) writes:
>philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes:
>>Not so. You require at least a 386sx, VGA, an MPC complient CD-ROM such as
>>the Sony 541/535 or the NEC-83M( but not the NEC-83), a suitable audio card
>>with mixing capabilities( SB Pro for example but not the SB), Midi, Windows
>>3.1( which includes the extensions).
>*----
>The CDR-83 is fully MPC compliant.  It is also substantially faster
>than most other MPC-compliant drives on the market.  The CDR-83M
>would be a better choice, of course, because it is much better
>at smooth-motion simulated video, but it wouldn't be accurate to
>reject the CDR-83 as non-compliant (and say nothing about
>Tandy's compliant CD-ROM drive with 1000 ms access time).

Neither NEC's 83 nor the 72( external version ) and of course the 36 are
MPC complient. The access time may very well be fast on the 72/83 but it
can't sustain the 150kB/sec that is required. Try running Mammals on it.
The NEC drives were reveiwed in PC Magazine and found lacking re use for
multimedia. This is one reason why NEC upgraded them. Call NEC and ask them.

philip
philip@utstat.toronto.edu
From: jstan@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (John Stansbury [Hernandz] exp. 12/31/92)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: List of all multimedia magazines...
Date: 13 Apr 1992 21:04:35 GMT
Organization: Software Technology Branch - NASA/JSC
Originator: jstan@gothamcity


Have you tried "Verbum"?  I think it's published quarterly in hardcopy, and there is a version on CD-ROM.
From: kjellr@sofus.dhhalden.no (Kjell Are Refsvik)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Still looking for M-Magazines...
Date: 7 Apr 92 14:44:04 GMT
Organization: dhhalden

I have got very few responses on current multimedia-magazines. 
The ones i have got, will be posted sometime next week including all I
have collected on the current available magazines. 

But I need more information! If you have information on any M-Magazines,
please post them here, or mail me some info.

Kjell Are  (Graduate student - Multimedia)
kjellr@sofus.dhhalden.no)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: i1neal@exnet.iastate.edu (Neal Rauhauser -- )
Subject: Re: Multimedia PC requirements.
Reply-To: i1neal@exnet.iastate.edu (Neal Rauhauser -- )
Organization: Iowa State University Extension
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 04:19:09 GMT


>>The requirements are pretty minimal, they are a computer with a CD-ROM,
>>audio card, MS Windows with Multimedia extensions (whatever that is), and
>>VGA.
>
>Not so. You require at least a 386sx, VGA, an MPC complient CD-ROM such as
>the Sony 541/535 or the NEC-83M( but not the NEC-83), a suitable audio card
>with mixing capabilities( SB Pro for example but not the SB), Midi, Windows
>3.1( which includes the extensions).


    Has anyone figured out the smartdrv.sys/ scsi controller problem?
When using scsi for a cd-rom or other scsi device and ide as the primary
controller I invariably get a hang when I use smart drive. I've tried this
on two different systems now. Is there a mod to smartdrv.sys for the
multimedia extensions?



--
  Neal i1neal@exnet.iastate.edu
From: raisty@berlioz.nsc.com (Sue Raisty)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: MS WAVE file format
Keywords: Multimedia, WAVE, Windows
Date: 8 Apr 92 18:59:30 GMT
Organization: National Semiconductor Corporation


Hello.  I don't usually read netnews, but I need your help.
I have a few questions about WAVE file format.  I have been referencing
the  _Microsoft Windows Multimedia Programmer's Reference_ for information on 
the format.  To my untrained eye it does not seem like the format described in 
the book matches the format of the WAVE files that came with the Windows 3.1
beta release that I have.  I looked at ding.wav, chord.wav, chime.wav, and
tada.wav.

The book says (on Pg. 8-40)
<WAVE-form>  ->  RIFF(  'WAVE'			//Form type
			<fmt-ck>		// Waveform format
			<data-ck> )		// Waveform data

<fmt-ck>  -> 	fmt(	<wave-format>		// WaveFormat Structure
			<format-specific>	// Dependent on format category

<wave-format> -> struct {WORD formatTag;		// Format Category
			 WORD nChannels;		// No. channels
			 DWORD nSamplesPerSec;   // Sampling Rate
			 DWORD nAvgBytesPerSec;  // For buffering
			 WORD  nBlockAlign;}	// Block alignments

<PCM-format-specific> ->  struct {WORD   nBitsPerSample;}  //Sample Size

<data-ck> -> data( <wave-data> )
----------------
Below I have the translations of the binary wave files into ascii. 

ding
52 49 46 46 			RIFF
46 2D 0 0 
57 41 56 45 			WAVE
66 6D 74 			fmt
20 10 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 22 56 0
0 22 56 0 0 1 0 8 0 
64 61 74 61 			data
22 2D 0 0 
80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80....

chimes
52 49 46 46 			RIFF
28 3E 0 0 
57 41 56 45 			WAVE
66 6D 74 			fmt
20 10 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 22 56 0 0 22 56 0 0 1 0 8 0 
64 61 74 61 			data
4 3E 0 0 
80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80........

----
As you can see, I found where the text is that says RIFF, WAVE, fmt, etc...
But I am a bit confused because I can't find the parantheses, etc...
Also, what is the Word that is in-between the RIFF and WAVE text?  It is
not specified in the book... It was different in all the files I checked.
There also seem to be more bytes in the fmt-ck than I think there should 
be.  By my count, there should be 16 bytes (7 words in the wave-fromat and
1 word in the format-specific), but you can see that there are 21.  I guess
that some of the extra bytes must be leading and trailing characters, but 
I can't guess where.  I am also a bit confused about the bytes right after
the text "data".  What are they, what do they do, how long are they, etc...

I would really appreciate it if anyone could explain this differences to me
or send me any current and more detailed information on the WAVE file format.  
Since I rarely, if ever, read news, please send email to me personally...

Thanks muchly,
Sue Raisty
raisty@berlioz.nsc.com
From: witczak@quebec.egr.msu.edu (Mark Witczak)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Future of fax?
Date: 9 Apr 92 14:51:04 GMT
Reply-To: witczak@quebec.egr.msu.edu (Mark Witczak)
Organization: College of Engineering, Michigan State University

|>How exactly do they differentiate between a fax call and a voice call?
writes tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry Jones).

well it's quite simple, in fact the phone company has had the technology for
years, the listen for a carrier of 2600 KHz (or something in that area).  In 
the past they used this information to turn off full duplex on fone lines 
because the lag time for long distance comm. would screw up transmission.  
Lately, there's a controversy over BBS's paying business rates because they
charge their users, the Ma Bell would use this listening in such a case.

mark
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: Creative multimedia upgrade kit
Keywords: SB Pro CDROM
Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 22:06:54 GMT

In article <solid.702830993@aucs> solid@aucs.acadiau.ca (Tomasz Muldner) writes:
>I'm thinking about buying "Creative multimedia upgrade kit" with SB PRo and
>390ms Panasonic CD-ROM. Does anybody have any experience with this kit?
>The price here in Nova Scotia, Canada seems to be Can$900...

I would seriously think about other alternatives. One you might consider is
the MPC upgrade from MediaVision which uses a ProAudio Spectrum-16 (16 bit
sampling and better FM synthesis) and a NEC-M83. Or even their CDPC unit.
Have a look at a magazine called MPC World. In any case I personally would
avoid the SB().

Philip McDunnough
Professor, Department of Statistics
University of Toronto
philip@utstat.toronto.edu

Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: warsh@athena.mit.edu (Russell Williams)
Subject: Re: MS WAVE file format
Keywords: Multimedia, WAVE, Windows
Organization: MIT
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 22:22:16 GMT

In article <7nsj0za.thinman@netcom.com>, thinman@netcom.com (Lance Norskog) writes:
|   The book says (on Pg. 8-40)
|   <WAVE-form>  ->  RIFF(  'WAVE'			//Form type
|   			<fmt-ck>		// Waveform format
|   			<data-ck> )		// Waveform data
|   <fmt-ck>  -> 	fmt(	<wave-format>		// WaveFormat Structure
|   			<format-specific>	// Dependent on format category

| Guess: Parenthesis in the above grammar means "new block",
| which gets its own 4-byte length field.

| Look at the rest of the file and count out the bytes.
| I'm sure you'll find that they agree with the two section
| length fields at the beginning.
| 
| This seems to be compatible with Electronic Arts' IFF format.

This is correct, RIFF was modelled after the IFF format.  The blocks are
called "chunks".  Any software reading the WAVE format should (to remain
upward compatible with future iterations) skip chunk ID's that it
doesn't recognize, made easy by having the length of the chunk following
the tag.  Don't just assume that chunks will appear only in the specified
sequence.

-Russell Williams
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: freedman@bellman.lanl.gov (Keith S. Freedman)
Subject: Re: Future of fax?
Reply-To: freedman@bellman.lanl.gov
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 22:44:19 GMT

The next generation of fax will provide many useful features:
--Color Fax transmission
--Higher resolution output at higher rates of speed
--Possible OCR recognition built in (for standard fonts, at least).

---
Keith Freedman
Los Alamos National Laboratory
freedman@ilmen.lanl.gov
From: freedman@bellman.lanl.gov (Keith S. Freedman)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Video Capture Systems
Date: 7 Apr 92 15:39:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: newshost.1992Apr7.153918.29582
Reply-To: freedman@bellman.lanl.gov
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory

Is anyone aware of any systems for any hardware/operating system platforms that
will, effectively, turn a computer into a VCR?

What I'd like to do is connect a video camera to the computer and start recording
(on the computer) EVERYTHING that comes through the camera and store it on
disk.  I realize that this will require a lot of disk space, but it is what I'd like to do.

I don't want to have to record to a VCR or lazerdisk and grab frame after frame
after frame (as I do now).

(Please post or I'll post summaries).

Thanks,
---
Keith Freedman
Los Alamos National Laboratory
freedman@ilmen.lanl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia,comp.music,comp.compression,comp.windows.ms