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From: malc@equinox.unr.edu (Malcolm Carlock)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia,comp.ivideodisc,rec.video
Subject: Videodisk player with fast external access to video memory?
Date: 12 Jan 93 18:36:09 GMT
Followup-To: comp.multimedia
Organization: University of Nevada, Reno  Campus Computing Services

Does anyone know of a videodisk player which offers fast access to its
video memory, i.e., with something like a SCSI interface on the back,
some kind of direct memory access cable that connects to a specialized
PC/Mac card, or something else along these lines (not RS-232, feh.)

We'd like to be able to download digital image information directly from
the videodisk player rather than having to use a frame grabber.

Please respond via email, and I will summarize to the net.

Thanks in advance for any info.
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Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown)
Subject: Re: VideoDisk ea
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 04:59:29 GMT

Peter Arien <LAAAA43@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be> writes:

>Dear comp.multimedia reader,

>I am working on a project where we have 4 ibm mm-machines whith
>os2 2.0 installed (8557-259 system unit with 4Mb memory, XGA display
>and Actionmedia II Display Adapter/A, to be expanded with a
>Video Capture Adapter in the near future).

If you are using OS/2 2.0, you definitely need more than 4MB ram
in your systems.  8MB is the bare minimum, 12 or 16 is a good
idea.  I was just piddling around with OS/2 on my 8MB system (not
doing any fancy mm authoring stuff) and felt that I needed
more memory to avoid the constant disk activity from swapping.

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From: jt34@prism.gatech.EDU (THOMPSON,JOHN C)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Videospigot for Windows
Date: 7 Jan 93 14:25:55 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

I agree - enough of this PC Hurricane stuff. If we want we know how to get
it!
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: mlr@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (michael.l.robins)
Subject: Anyone get ISA Action Media II doing image capture under win 3.1??
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 03:03:49 GMT
Keywords: multimedia action-media pc-video

I have been unsuccessful in getting image capture working using an IBM
Action Media II board in an ISA machine. (Gateway DX266V with ATI local
bus video.) The confidence test and execiser program work fine, but I
can not get video capture to work under windows. I have loaded video for
windows and hardware DVI support is enabled, but when I run vidcapture 
a get a freeze frame of video and then the screen turns a strange shade
of yellow and I have to reboot windows.

If anyone has any ideas, or can assist in getting this working I sure
would appreciate the help.


				Mike Robins
				AT&T Bell Labs
				mlr2@hogpa.att.com
				(908) 949-2452
From: iaj+@pitt.edu (Ida A Joiner)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Animation Programs for Windows 3.1
Date: 7 Jan 93 17:55:03 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Originator: iaj@unixd3.cis.pitt.edu

Hello Everyone:


	Can you send me the names of good animation programs for Windows
3.1? We have Macromind Director for our Macintoshes and would like to
have the equivalent in the Windows environment.


		Thank you!



		Ida Joiner


P.S. Please respond to me directly.


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Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: schrod@omega.kcr.uky.edu (Mark A. Schneider)
Subject: .WAV/speaker
Organization: Kentucky Cancer Registry, Univ. of Ky
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 18:41:42 GMT
Distribution: usa

Does anyone recall a freeware file called speaker.exe which enabled
Windows to use the pc speaker (no audio card required) to sample
Window sounds?  The article mentioned the sound is not great, but
at least it gives you an idea as to what the .WAV sound like.  
Unfortunately I cannot remember which article I read it in nor
where the file can be obtained from.
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: vahe@sparcy.Stanford.EDU (Vahe Avedissian)
Subject: multistandard video
Originator: vahe@sparcy.Stanford.EDU
Organization: Robotics Lab.
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 00:57:30 GMT

I am not sure this is the correct group to address this to, but
here goes anyway.

I need to be able to view/play multi-standard Video recordings
(VHS and LVD) but am not sure what the best way to do this is.

I have been told to use a multistandard TV/Monitor and use
multistandard VCR and LVD players.

A second alternative is to use a standard NTSC TV/monitor
but use a VCR/LVD player that does the scan conversion
automatically.

Yet another proposal I have heard is to attach a scan converter
to the TV/Monitor and use multistandard players as in the first
option.

What are the pros/cons of the above approaches. What is the
best solution to this problem and where can one get multistandard
hardware. I hear most are grey market products.

Finally, what are the advantages/disadvantages of various formats,
NTSC/PAL/SECAM/NTSC4.43 and which is expected to yeild the best
PERCEIVED image quality ?

Thanks,

vahe
Organization: K.U.Leuven - Academic Computing Center
Date: Tuesday, 12 Jan 1993 09:55:19 +01
From: Peter Arien <LAAAA43@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: VideoDisk ea

Dear comp.multimedia reader,

I am working on a project where we have 4 ibm mm-machines whith
os2 2.0 installed (8557-259 system unit with 4Mb memory, XGA display
and Actionmedia II Display Adapter/A, to be expanded with a
Video Capture Adapter in the near future).

This came in a package with a lot of software (AVC, Linkway, Storyboard,
C Set/2, the OS/2 Dev. Toolkit, ActionMedia Dev. Toolkit and Microsoft
MultiMedia Extensions).

I have been using an authoring tool under DOS (Phoenix from Goal-systems -
now Legent), but am relatively new to OS/2 and completely new to the
software mentioned above.
I have some experience in C, but not in the MM-field.

How about that for an intro ...

Now I have a few questions (of course) :

First, we want to expand the hardware with a VideoDisk player. We're going to
have a talk with several dealers, and I would like to get some background
on this first. What are the caveats, are there any specific things I have to
look out for, any questions I realy have to ask...

Second, is anyone else using the AVC-software? I would like to know the pro's
and con's before I dive into yet another software package, so I don't have
to find out about the limitations of this program in the middle of
development. (I didn't get my say in the software choice, I was thrown
in when all decisions were made ...)
Info about the other software is welcome also.

Third, ... well, anything else you would like to tell a Mm-Os2-newbee?

Greetins and thanks for any feedback ...

  Peter Arien
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Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: david@joshua.eushc.org (C. David Cooke)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Digital data --> NTSC Commercial boards: i
Date: 7 Jan 1993 19:12:21 GMT
Organization: Emory University School of Medicine
Distribution: world
Reply-To: david@joshua.eushc.org
NNTP-Posting-Host: 163.246.192.15

Hello!

SGI has several options for converting digital data to NTSC signals.  We just
purchased VideoLab, and it has all kinds of video options.  Contact your local
SGI Rep. for more info, or post to comp.sys.sgi.graphics.

I am not so sure about other platforms.
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Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: zhj@argon.iss.nus.sg (Zhang Hong Jiang)
Subject: Hepl for RasterOps Video Card TC/PIP
Originator: zhj@argon
Organization: Institute of Systems Science, NUS, Singapore
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 05:27:23 GMT

We have just installed a RasterOps Video Card TC/PIP on our SunSparc 2.
However, only after we installed the card, we realized that there is no 
programmer's manual with card. We then made the order to get the manual,
but heard nothing from RasterOps. Is there anyone who knows RasterOps
contact Fax number? The number I used was 408 562-4065 and I am not sure
if this is the right number to order the manual. 

Also, as far as we know from the Installation Guide, RasterOps SPARC Card
TC/PIP only support SunView and PixRect but not X-window. Could anyone 
provide more information on this? We intend to use this video card to
work under X-window and motif for one of our video projects to do real
time frame grabering and display. Any information on how to program for
this card is very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.   

Zhang HongJiang
Fax: (65) 778 2571
From: tlilley@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Tripp Lilley)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Videospigot for Windows
Date: 5 Jan 93 17:07:35 GMT
Organization: The MultiMedia Lab at Virginia Tech


   Although, you should probably know that 'late-breaking news' (ie: we called
MicroWarehouse to find out where our Spigot was) has it that SuperMac is 
selling the rights to the Spigot for IBM to (get this) Creative Labs, and that
the boards won't be shipping for a few more weeks whilst they bicker over the
legal mumbo-jumbo...  what a pain, no?

- t.

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From: sajja@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Rajeev  Sajja)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia,comp.graphics
Subject: Digital data --> NTSC Commercial boards: info needed.
Date: 7 Jan 93 15:14:51 GMT
Followup-To: comp.multimedia
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

hi. 
I would like to know if there are commercial boards that convert
digital (binary form) data to NTSC compatible signals for any
of the workstation platoforms (IBM RS/6000, SUN, DEC etc..) out there

IF you know of any please email me.

thanks

-Rajeev
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: gcm@world.std.com (Gretchen C Macdowall)
Subject: Re: Premiere sound question
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 08:57:43 GMT

slambert@willamette.edu (Sean Lambert) writes:

>I was wondering if there is a way to import just an audio track into
>Premiere...if so...does it have to be in a certain fortmat??  

Yes you can. If you save the movie with just the audio you get a QuickTime
window with just the title bar and the controller under it. You can use
SoundEdit, snd and AIFF formats.
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: seanp@sdf.lonestar.org (Sean Peoples)
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Pro "?"
Organization: sdf public access Unix, Dallas -- 214-436-3281
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 23:00:20 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.221827.16732@nosc.mil> shall@obiwan.nosc.mil (Scott R. Hall) writes:
>Curious..... How can I use my sound blaster pro board to record music from  
>a boom box? I would like to be able to record samples of music from the  
>radio, and the CD and tape player. Is a MIDI cable neccesary? I am working  
>with no documentation or books at the time, but am knowledgeable enough to  
>get something going if pointed in the right direction. Thanks in advance.

A MIDI cable would be of absolutely no use to you, you need a standard plug
that will convert whatever output you have from the boom box to a standard
input on the SB Pro...For example:

An audio cable that will convert two RCA plugs into a stereo-mini (3.5mm)
plug, or if you have headphone jacks only, a stereo-mini to stereo-mini
cable...

The only other problem would be the impedance...On the SB and SB Pro, the 
input impedance on the mic connector is 4 ohms, normal RCA outputs are 8,
and headphones are anywhere from 2-8 ohms...You MUST match impedances 
BEFORE you sample anything!!!  Otherwise the samples will have EXTREMELY
poor quality, and your equipment could be damaged...A simple circuit can
be built for an extrememly low price to handle this, I'll let some of the
other techies handle this one...:-)

Later...

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Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: fidelman@world.std.com (Miles R Fidelman)
Subject: Multimedia Workshop
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: ne
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 23:48:11 GMT

<PLEASE REDISTRIBUTE>

IICS/Boston Again Offers "Introduction to 
Multimedia Workshop"

Saturday, February 27, 1992, 9am - 4pm
Media Center, University of Massachusetts at 
Boston, Harbor Campus

The International Interactive Communications 
Society (IICS) is offering an "Introduction to 
Multimedia."  This one-day workshop will introduce 
the basic components and concepts of interactive 
multimedia.  Several recent development efforts 
will be presented in detail, and participants will 
be able to experiment "hands-on" with the resulting 
products.  Participants will be introduced to the 
equipment, hardware, and software needed to get 
started on their own multimedia applications.  
Various multimedia "platforms" will be discussed.  
There will be a hands-on period using the 
University's Multimedia Lab.  We plan to have many 
experts in the production field to answer any 
questions participants may have.  This workshop is 
a repeat of a popular workshop given last year

IICS is a membership organization of video and 
computer professionals involved in the production 
of interactive multi-media materials.  The workshop 
is offered to members for $25, and to non-members 
for $50.  SPECIAL OFFER TO NEW MEMBERS:  JOIN IICS 
AT THE NORMAL RATE OF $85/yr. (STUDENTS $45/yr.), 
AND ATTEND THE WORKSHOP FREE OF CHARGE.

Registration is limited to 36, and is first-come-
first-serve.  Mail registration fee to IICS/Boston, 
369 Mass Ave., #187, Arlington, MA 02174.  For more 
information call the IICS office at 617-738-IICS or 
our Program Chairman, Thomas Appleton, at 617-242-
3420. (Do not reply to this email address).
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: ramesh@zycad.com (Ramesh Narayanaswamy)
Subject: Request comments on Image World West Conference
Organization: Zycad Corporation,  Fremont, CA
Distribution: comp.multimedia
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 21:47:23 GMT


I was wondering if some of the people who have attended
this conference (? workshop) can comment on how interesting
it was, did you learn anything new, etc.

one reason i ask is the cost of attending; i noticed that
the conference costs 500+ dollars to attend. it seems to have
a sister conference called 'Meeting the Cross Platform Challenge'
which costs 500+ dollars also.

One of the sessions that interested
me most was one described as 'Business and Marketing Panel' which
would cover such issues as budgeting, scheduling etc.

The conferences are run by 'Knowledge Industry Publications',
phone 1-800-800-5474 or 1-914-328-9157.
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: weisee@aix.rpi.edu (Elizabeth A. Weise)
Subject: Re: Anyone get ISA Action Media II doing image capture under win 3.1??
Keywords: multimedia action-media pc-video
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 13:39:49 GMT

In article <1993Jan9.030349.24572@cbnewsh.cb.att.com> mlr@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (michael.l.robins) writes:
>I have been unsuccessful in getting image capture working using an IBM
>Action Media II board in an ISA machine. (Gateway DX266V with ATI local
>bus video.) The confidence test and execiser program work fine, but I
>can not get video capture to work under windows. I have loaded video for
>windows and hardware DVI support is enabled, but when I run vidcapture 
>a get a freeze frame of video and then the screen turns a strange shade
>of yellow and I have to reboot windows.
>

I spoke with Intel about this problem (I was having problems with the
Confidence Test).  Anyway, they said there are some special things you
need to do with the AVK.ini file and some other magic.  Unfortunately,
I don't have those changes yet as I'm still waiting for a compatible
video card.  

My suggestion is to call the Intel Tech Support number printed in your
documentation.  The rep. I spoke with was quite helpful.

Good Luck.


>






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From: fingerhu@ircam.fr (Michel Fingerhut)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Fundamental Frequencies of Musical Notes
Date: 5 Jan 93 19:14:46 GMT
Organization: IRCAM, Paris (France)

dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes:

>The frequency of A' at 440 is currently indeed standard, but for older music
>you would like to have a lower pitch.

alves@calvin.usc.edu (William Alves) corrects:
>It is a myth that absolute pitch has been getting gradually higher since the
>baroque. [...] At least in the baroque pitch references were local at best,

... as is obvious from the various organs still in existence from those
periods.  I don't have my Helmholtz' right here but from recollection some
As were as high as 535 Hz (against 440 today).
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: msk@doomsday.micro.umn.edu (Mark S. Kassem)
Subject: MultiMedia Speaker Wanted
Organization: University of Minnesota
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:07:26 GMT


	The student chapter of the ACM @ the university of Minnesota
	would like a Multi-Media Speaker preferably one approved
	by national ACM to speak on campus to a large group of interested
	students and faculty. 

	Please let us know if you fit the above requirements, and you are
	interested in enjoying our frigid weather.

	Thank You
	-msk
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Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: SPC@mindlink.bc.ca (SPC)
Subject: Documentation Templates?
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 20:12:54 GMT

Hi!

Does anybody know if there is a software template which will generate
technical documents (e.g. Requirements Spec., QA Plan, Design Doc., etc.)
automatically?  I would appreciate it if you could provide me with any
references or materials(templates, related papers, tools, etc.) regarding the
subject.

Please give me your reply as soon as possible.  Thanks in advance!

--Elaine--
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Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: BH4781@uacsc2.albany.edu
Subject: Quest Users Group?
Organization: University at Albany, Albany NY 12222
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 10:51:40 EST

Hi. I was wondering if anyone out there knows of a user group for people
using the authoring language Quest by Allen Communications. I have heard
that there might be a mail subscriber list. If anyone is interested in
exchanging Quest images, programming tips, etc., please post!
 
Benjamin H. Henry
Learning Technologies Lab
Center for Electronic Language Learning and Research
University at Albany, SUNY
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: arthur@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (John Vaudin)
Subject: MCI string query
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 12:35:21 GMT

Can anyone help me with a query on programming a DVI card (under OS/2
and MMPM/2) using the MCI string interface?

I'm trying to play videos without opening and closing the display context
each time, as this slows things down greatly.

The following works but is painfully slow (around 10 seconds to start
playing each video):

	open video1.avs
	play digitalvideo
	close digitalvideo
	open video2.avs
	play digitalvideo
	close digitalvideo
	...

I would like to do the following:

	open digitalvideo
	load video1.avs
	play digitalvideo
	load video2.avs
	play digitalvideo
	...
	close digitalvideo

But on attempting the 'load' I get an 'instance inactive' error message.
Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Rolf Howarth
rolf@parallax.demon.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia