HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: tevonp@aix.rpi.edu (Peter Kaine Tevonian)
Subject: Re: Which is better:SBPro or Adlib gold?
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 01:30:46 GMT

ap353@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Kamarul Baharin Khalid) writes:


>ANyone know which is better?  Adlib gold 1000 or SoundBlasterPro?
>And what the difference between Adlib gold 2000 and 1000?  Thanks.
>							- KB

As and addendum to this: To anyone who has experience with the SBPro, are
there any cards that do better sampling/playback? I had an SBPro that
I used to record some CD input through the external 1/8" plug. When I 
played them back, they sounded disappointingly "hiss-y." I ended up
returning the card. The music and sounds that are provided or that the
card generates by itself were superb, but I want/need good sampling
quality. Any options for less than the $4000 profession 24bit, 25MIPS
cards?

Also, does using the CD-Rom as an input device for sampling (like say, to
the SBPro card) improve the sampling quality significantly? I don't 
currently own a CD-ROM, so couldn't test it.

Thanks,
--Pete Tevonian
  tevonp@rpi.edu
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: shoun@netcom.com (Lissa Shoun)
Subject: IICS Meeting in San Francisco
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 21:23:14 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: ba

International Interactive Communications Society, SF Bay Area Chapter

Next Meeting: Interface Design

Date:  Tuesday, April 14th

Time:  7:00 - 10:00pm,  Refreshments from 7:00 to 7:30

Place:  Exploratorium
        3601 Lyon St.
        San Francisco

Cost:  Free to IICS members
       $10 for non-members

Subject: Michael Levin of Stanford University's Academic Software
Development group will demonstrate MOGUL, an interactive computer
simulation and role-playing game about movie-making in the silent film
era.  MOGUL was conceived by Professor Henry Breitrose of
Stanford's Communications Department.  Places, everyone! Lights,
camera, action!

Our second speaker, Abbe Don, will show and discuss some of her latest
endeavors in interface design.  Abbe will discuss interactive guides
and other related issues of interface design and non-verbal
communication. 
                                             
                                              - Frank Wiley

Directions:  Take 101 north to the Van Ness exit and head North
following signs for the Golden Gate Bridge. After several blocks,
turn left on Lombard and continue for
several blocks, bearing to the right on Richardson Ave. as if headed
for GG Bridge.  At Lyon Street, take a right turn into the
Exploratorium parking lot.  Drive around the circle to the main doors
at the North entrance.  For more information, call: (415) 561-0360.


Lissa
shoun@netcom.com
(408)926-0812

Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: abbas@cc.uow.edu.au (gulam-abbas aly)
Subject: Current Projects
Summary: Multimedia\
Keywords: Multimedia
Organization: University Of Wollongong
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 10:20:34 GMT

If you are currently working on specific projects I would be interested
in knowing about your project and what software you are using. 
We are trying to create a database of all current projects in the
multimedia field. No matter how big or small.

Abbas  Aly
Business Development
MOLAB (Multimedia & Open Learning LAB)
Uni. of Wollongong Australia
e-mail abbas@wampyr.cc.uow.edu.au

Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: Multimedia PC requirements.
Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 22:29:04 GMT

In article <1992Apr11.191041.4475@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> nap42487@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Nishith A. Patel) writes:
>Mark_Skaff@softworx.access (Mark Skaff) writes:
>
>>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".
>
>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).

Oh, forgot there's also a minimal HD and RAM requirement. It used to be that
286 systems were the base. That is no longer the case. The minimum is a 16MHz
sx.

philip
philip@utstat.toronto.edu
From: esa@tolsun.oulu.fi (Esa Hanninen)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: DVA-4000 & Windows & Frame Grab?
Date: 9 Apr 92 21:21:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: ousrvr.1992Apr9.212106.21027
Organization: University of Oulu, Finland

Hi, 
    Is there a Windows utility for DVA-4000 video card to grab
    a frame from video?

    Is there a public domain file conversion program that regognizes
    DVA-4000's own file format?

    Thank you.
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia,rec.video.production
From: king@feline.uucp (KingLeon)
Subject:  Projection Systems and Tablets
Keywords:  multi-media,lcd,projection,tablets
Organization: Humber College Technology Dept.
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 14:49:44 GMT

We're looking at buying a projection system for a lecture theatre for
showing both video and computer applications running under DOS, MacOs,
Amiga and Windows.  We've looked at a few: InFocus, IKEI, Ovation and
a partial demo of Sharp.   Can I get a summary of first hand impressions
of these and other products.  I'll summarize the results.
  
________________________________________________________________________
Sig, what sig?  I don't see no sig!
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: J.Sawers@uts.edu.au (James Sawers)
Subject: Re: Video Capture Systems
Organization: University of Technology, Sydney
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 04:18:39 GMT

Computereyes in Australia have just announced a board that captures video 
in real time to a PC hard disk. The sequential frames are saved in 
animator .fli or Linkway format.
I'll post the address and particulars if you are interested.

J.Sawers@uts.edu.au          ph: 61 02 330 3904                          Computer 
Network Manager
Faculty of Education,
University of Technology,
Sydney, Australia
From: antti@oulu.fi (Antti Peltonen)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Where/when to get Gravis?
Date: 14 Apr 92 07:39:30 GMT
Organization: ATK-keskus

Hi,
Lot's of happening on PC-audioboards. I think there is also
some vaporware -nice, cheap, hitech cards , but relese any
time now...

Gravis Ultrasound (?) seems OK, according to (Net)News.
Do you now what is the palce to buy it with creditcard/mailorder.
- I mean if and when it will come to shelves, what is likely the first
reasonably priced place to find it.

Any new info about Gravis from Comdex ?
                                          -Antti-
Xref: sparky comp.multimedia:1311 comp.sys.mac.hypercard:1873
From: priha@tik.vtt.fi (Ilkka Priha)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia,comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: RasterOps and HyperCard
Date: 13 Apr 92 10:09:21 GMT
Followup-To: comp.multimedia
Organization: Technical Research Centre of Finland


Hello,

We have a quite old version of the RasterOps 264 video board for Macintoh 
II. Now we have moved to System 7 and QuickTime, but our existing 
XCmds for displaying analog video with HyperCard do not work anymore. On 
the other hand, with QuickTime it should be possible to use the QuickTime 
XCmds if you only had the RasterOps - QuickTime driver. Now I would like 
to know if there is a QuicTime driver for the RasterOps 264 card (or a new 
set of XCmds), and if it is available in some ftp server. Our local dealer 
only sells these boads, the support is minimal.

--Ilkka

--------------------------------------------------------------
Ilkka Priha                      | Internet:  priha@tik.vtt.fi
Tech. Research Centre of Finland | BITNET:    priha@FINVTT
Lab. for Information Processing  | Tel.:      +358 0 456 6045
From: freedman@bellman.lanl.gov (Keith S. Freedman)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Future of fax?
Date: 7 Apr 92 16:07:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: newshost.1992Apr7.160735.2403
Reply-To: freedman@bellman.lanl.gov
Followup-To: comp.multimedia, alt.society.civil-liberty
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory

discussion forwarded to alt.society.civil-liberty as well
---
Keith Freedman
Los Alamos National Laboratory
freedman@ilmen.lanl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: aa596@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Peter Haller)
Subject: Re: MS WAVE file format
Reply-To: aa596@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Peter Haller)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 13:53:37 GMT


In a previous article, thinman@netcom.com (Lance Norskog) says:

>
>Guess: Parenthesis in the above grammar means "new block",
>which gets its own 4-byte length field.
>
>  ding
>  52 49 46 46 			RIFF
>  46 2D 0 0 			11590 bytes long
>  57 41 56 45 			WAVE
>  66 6D 74 20			fmt <space>
>  10 0 0 0 			16 bytes long
>  1 0 				format type #1
>  1 0 				1 channel (mono)
Sorry, you got these two wrong. This is 0x005622L
which reps 22.05 khz sampling rate.
>  22 56 0 0 			8790 samples
>  22 56 0 0 			8790 bytes/sec on average
>  1 0 				1 block align ???
>		note that we have now used up our 16 bytes for the 'fmt '
>  8 0 				8 bits per sample
>  64 61 74 61 			data
>  22 2D 0 0 			8749 bytes long
>  80 80 80 80 80 80....		dead time.  Since it's 128,
>				that means these are unsigned bytes.
>				This may be what 'format type #1' means.
>  


PCH
-- 
Peter C. Haller				|	'If you do what you 
Imagination Processing Systems		|	have always done,
aa596@cleveland.Freenet.Edu 		|	expect what you have
"Are we having fun yet?"		|	always recieved.'
From: laird@think.com (Laird Popkin)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Multimedia Documents under Unix
Date: 7 Apr 1992 21:11:20 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: django.think.com
Keywords: multimedia, unix

I am looking for a way to distribute hypertext documents between Unix
systems.  I would like to be able to retain the formatting in the
documents (e.g. typefaces, sizes, layout), and I would like to be able to
build hypertext links within the documents.

Options that I am aware of are:

FrameMaker: There is a Frame Reader, but there is a per copy licensing fee
for the reader which means that I would need to count and limit access to
the documents.  Aside from that drawback, Frame can handle graphics,
formatted text, etc., quite well.

Guide Reader: This hasn't shipped yet, and won't for another 6 months or
so.  Aside from that, it seems similar to Frame in capabilities.

Emacs: There is supposedly a set of macroes for emacs which allows one to
create hypertext links within documents.  There's no formatting to speak
of, but it's free and freely distributable.  If anyone can give me any
pointers here I would appreciate it.

Thanks!

- Laird Popkin
  laird@think.com
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: henrybh@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Benjamin H. Henry)
Subject: Re: List of all multimedia magazines...
Organization: Clarkson University
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 14:21:16 GMT

kjellr@sofus.dhhalden.no (Kjell Are Refsvik) writes:

>A week ago a posted a message on COMP.MULTIMEDIA, urging you all to mail me
>information about current multimedia-magazines. I+m fairly dissapointed. Have 
>got some some mail, all telling me about ONE magazine. I hereby proudly presents 
>the only multimedia magazine in the world (or so it seems):

>Magazine............: NewMedia	
>Publisher...........: Hypermedia Communications

I saw a magazine titled "MultiMedia" in the bookstore last week. I will buy
it today and post info later.
--
Benjamin H. Henry                bh4781@albnyvms.bitnet         
Albany, NY                	 bh4781@rachel.albany.edu
                          	 henrybh@logic.camp.clarkson.edu
Somehow it may get to me.	 henrybh@craft.camp.clarkson.edu
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: Martin B.Hill <Martin_Hill@qmcc.curtin.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Video Capture Systems
Organization: Curtin Uni Computing Centre
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.0
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 10:25:03 GMT

One caveat:
To replace the full functionality of a VCR with a computer based system,
you're looking at BIG dollars.  Low-end small sofware based Quicktime
video segments are bad enough, but full screen full fps hardware-based
QuickTime videos mean gigs of Hard Disk and an expensive video board, not
to mention a fairly powerful computer...

However, those concerns aside...

Any of the many existing Quicktime capable boards on the Macintosh
platform such as those listed below will capture live video (and sound
either via the board itself or through the Mac's Sound digitizing
capabilities or MacRecorder or similar).  These boards save the video to
dis at small resolutions and frame rates (typically 10-15fps, and 160x120
pixels).  They have the advantage however, that the Quicktime video
segments play back on any 68020 Mac or greater without those Macs also
needing extra hardware like a card.

-SuperMac VideoSpigot, VideoSpigot Pro, VideoSpigot and Sound
-RasterOps 364, 24stv, 24xlitv, 24mxlitv, MediaTime
-VideoLogic
-MoonRaker
etc 

A number of these cards, namely most of the RasterOps boards are
upgradable in the future with the QuickPac daughter board to give full
screen, 25 or 30 fps video capture and playback.  This is due in May.

The RasterOps ImagePro has been mentioned in previous postings as capable
of Motion JPEG compression and apparently gets near to the mark re full
screen, full fps.

Several cards are already shipping with 640x480 full screen resolution,
full frame rate, video capture and playback:

-the EyeQ series of boards using a DVI chip (see prev posting re. DVI)
-the Digital FX and Soft FX Off-line Video editing systems.
-the AVID series of Off and low-end On-Line professional editing   
 system.

Catcha!
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Martin Hill            Internet:  chillm@cc.curtin.edu.au
Multimedia Consultant  QuickMail: Martin_Hill@3512673
Computing Centre       AppleLink: AUST0176
Curtin University      GPO Box U 1987, 
Ph:(09)351-7461        Perth 6001,
Fax:(09)351-2673       Western Austalia
----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: alves@calvin.usc.edu (William Alves)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: MIDI Note Off message
Date: 7 Apr 1992 18:25:47 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: calvin.usc.edu

In article <1992Mar27.150458.12963@exu.ericsson.se> exubrst@exu.ericsson.se writes:
>Speaking of MIDI specs.  I'm new to the technology so I don't know much about the specifications.  Does anyone know where I might find the complete MIDI specs?  Or at least an overview.
>
The MIDI standard specification is available via anonymous ftp from:

scam.Berkeley.EDU(128.32.138.1):misc/netjam/doc/midi/

and

archive.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5], MIDI/DOC/general-midi

A more useful group for such questions is probably comp.music.

Bill Alves
From: freedman@bellman.lanl.gov (Keith S. Freedman)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Future of fax?
Date: 9 Apr 92 16:51:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: newshost.1992Apr9.165158.13230
Reply-To: freedman@bellman.lanl.gov
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory

In article 13043@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu, witczak@quebec.egr.msu.edu (Mark Witczak) writes:

>What's OCR?  If it's what I think it is (font recognition) then you need
>higher resolution to get a higher accuracy in identifing the character.
>The blocky resolution of today's FAXes will not get you far.

The OCR would take place on the sender side and then transmit some sort of standard
(ASCII, perhaps) codes for characters it recognises.  This would make it appear to take
less time to transmit, although it takes longer to process each page.  I believe, that
there are some prototypes with 5 or 6 page buffers for this purpose.

---
Keith Freedman
Los Alamos National Laboratory
freedman@ilmen.lanl.gov
From: kjellr@sofus.dhhalden.no (Kjell Are Refsvik)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: List of all multimedia magazines...
Date: 9 Apr 92 15:38:20 GMT
Article-I.D.: ulrik.1992Apr9.153820.10159
Organization: dhhalden

A week ago a posted a message on COMP.MULTIMEDIA, urging you all to mail me
information about current multimedia-magazines. I+m fairly dissapointed. Have 
got some some mail, all telling me about ONE magazine. I hereby proudly presents 
the only multimedia magazine in the world (or so it seems):

Magazine............: NewMedia	
Publisher...........: Hypermedia Communications
Country.............: U.S.A
Address (subscr.)...: PO Box 1771, Riverton NJ 08077-9771
Phone...(subscr.)...: 415-573-5170
Fax.....(subscr.)...: 415-573-5131 
E-Mail..............: newmediaage@mcimail.com
Prize 12 issues(US).: ?
Price 12 issues(EUR): ?
Main contents.......: Cover in some depth what happens in the field of
...................: multimedia on most plattforms.
Platforms...........: All


This is all the information I+ve got. Plese mail me additional information if
you know of any other magazines.I am determined to make a list of M-Magazines. 
Some other names have been mentioned. Do anyone have information about these?:

-Computer Pictures
-Multimedia Computing & Presentations
-MPC World

Looking forward to hearing from you all.

Kjell Are Refsvik (Multimedia Graduate Student)
kjellr@sofus.dhhalden.no)
Xref: sparky comp.multimedia:1279 comp.sys.mac.misc:8936
From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: QuickTime video cards
Date: 10 Apr 92 18:05:22 +1200
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

In article <ku974tINN1m1@calvin.usc.edu>, alves@calvin.usc.edu (William Alves)
writes:
> I am looking for relatively inexpensive (pref. < $1000) video cards
> for the Mac that will record QuickTime movies. So far I have only
> heard about the SuperMac Video Spigot. However, I am concerned about
> information posted here that it will only record QuickTime with its
> own software; that is, I will not be able to use other QuickTime
> record applications with it. Also, I am hoping to find something with
> a bit depth of greater than 8 bits. What is the bit depth of the
> Video Spigot and what is the approximate price?

The ScreenPlay utility that comes with the Spigot grabs 24 bits per
pixel. You can of course save the data with any QuickTime compressor,
at any bit depth that the compressor supports.

Yes, it's true there is currently no QuickTime video digitizer "component"
for the Spigot, which means you can't capture video other than with
ScreenPlay. But they're working on it. Last I heard they mentioned
a "late April" release date for the component.

Lawrence
just another Spigot owner
From: wherry@alazif.cxn.dec.com (Colorado Cyberpunk)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Frame by Frame on videodisc
Keywords: videodisc
Date: 15 Apr 92 19:17:48 GMT
Reply-To: wherry@hootus.cxn.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Colorado Springs, Co



One other point, the Panasonic unit does have an RS232 port in it. Its a 
removable module.  Other options include RS422 and you can daisy chain mutliple
recorders together.  The protocol is pretty simple and was easy to code.

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

   Ex ignorantia ad sapientiam; e luce ad tenebras.
From: ajv@roi.csd.mot.com
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Which is better:SBPro or Adlib gold?
Date: 8 Apr 92 23:45:40 GMT

ap353@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Kamarul Baharin Khalid) writes:

>ANyone know which is better?  Adlib gold 1000 or SoundBlasterPro?
>And what the difference between Adlib gold 2000 and 1000?  Thanks.

Check out the MediaVision ProAudioSpectrum-16.  Just released.  Stereo
16-bit 44 Khz DAC/ADC, plus SB compatibility.  Also has a SCSI interface,
which they've tweaked to improve SCSI performance compared to the
old ProAudioSpectrum.  Lots more stuff, you need to drop by a dealer
who can give you the marketing stuff.

					Andy Valencia
From: kjartan@ecu.unice.fr (Kjartan Pierre Emilsson)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Frame by Frame on videodisc
Keywords: videodisc
Date: 14 Apr 92 12:44:07 GMT
Reply-To: kjartan@ecu.unice.fr
Organization: University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France

Hello,

Does anyone have some info on devices which can store frame by frame video  
on a videodisc, and then be able to display it as video film ?  I know  
that Sony has such a thing, but it is rather expensive. It should be  
controllable by RS port.

--
Kjartan Pierre Emilsson				e-mail:  
kjartan@ecu.unice.fr
Non-Linear Institute of Nice			tel.: 93 52 98 48
Universite de Nice - Sophia Antipolis	fax: 93 52 98 36
Parc Valrose
Nice, FRANCE
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 18:38:33 -0400 
From: Carl Loeffler <cel+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: CDTV

_______________________________________________
CDTV ART PROJECT 

Presently a search is underway to locate innovative approaches for  the
~CDTV ART PROJECT,~ a showcase for Amiga CDTV works.  

Organized by Carl Eugene Loeffler and Robert Edgar, the project will 
produce of a limited run CD, to be exhibited internationally at select
Art Museums, and New Media Festivals.  

The categories of solicited works consist of the following:

* 2-D Animations.
* 3-D Animations.
* MIDI Compositions.
* Interactive Disc and Video Works.
* Virtual Reality Applications.

The basic requirement, is that the work be able to run on a standard
CDTV platform: Amiga 500 with 1 MB RAM (chip).

Deadline for submissions, August 1, 1992.

Forward works on sample disc to:
Carl Eugene Loeffler
Executive Director
Art Com
POB-193123 Rincon Annex
San Francisco, California
94119-3123
TEL: (415) 431-7524
FAX: (415) 431-7841
EMAIL: artcomtv@well.sf.ca.us
__________________________________________________

Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: hsiaoe@marcus.its.rpi.edu (Eric Hsiao)
Subject: Re: Which is better:SBPro or Adlib gold?
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 20:19:42 GMT

For a chart comparison between the AG 1000 & the SB Pro, get the back issue
(September/October '91) of GIF News.  It includes a comparison chart between
the two boards.  It's available for FTP from wuarchive.wustl.edu
/graphics/gif-news and the filename is gn91-09.zip
   The next issue (May/June) will be more in depth with comparisons between
the SB Pro-OPL3 version, AdLib Gold, and Pro Audio Spectrum 16.  Look into
the PAS 16 card too, it provides many features that alot of users have
wanted at a competitive price with the other cards.
             - Eric
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