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From: cs89cmh@brunel.ac.uk (Chris Holland)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Advice from experts - please
Date: 18 Dec 92 13:28:50 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
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 Please help, my dad wants to put together a whole family history and is
 considering the possibilities of multimedia - but neither of us know much
 about it beyond that we can combine different media together in some kind of
 hyper text linked way.
 What we would like to know is this...
 
 Can we put old family movies onto the system, and index parts of them?- and
 then play them back on request.
 What is the best format to store stuff on? 
 What Authoring packages are there to put this stuff together
 How Much does it all cost (roughly)
 How long will it take to put together?

The kinds of things we might like to do with the system is interrogate it on
say one member of the family, and have access to all the data that is relevant
to that person .

please email as I do not subscribe to this group

Many Thanks for your help

Chris
cs89cmh@brunel.ac.uk

Have a Happy Christmas - or just enjoy the holidays if you don't celebrate it!
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: nwickham@nyx.cs.du.edu (Neal Wickham)
Subject: Real 3D ...just forget about that whimpy 3d thing you have! :) 
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Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 22:47:09 GMT


[reposted w/o permission] 


The author demoed Real 3D 2.0 in a recent exhibition here in Finland and the
product looked very impressive compared to current Imagine and Real 3D
versions at least.

Here are some of the most original features:
- everything seems to be configurable. If you like Caligari-type interface,
  you can have it. If you want to have 7 windows looking at your work from
  various angles, you can have it. All menus, tool gadgets & screens are
  part of this saveable 'environment'.
- animation is directly built-in into the objects just like materials or
  any other features. Skeleton-type animation allows easy modelling of
  for example hands (grab the fingers with the mouse and the rest of the
  arm will follow in a fancy way).
- the modeller includes a some sort of a physics simulator; put a ball
  on a table, lift one edge of the table and ball will roll off. Extremely
  powerful feature (think about a bowling alley... animate all falling
  skittles by hand or just throw the bowling ball and see how it goes).
  I don't know how far the simulation goes physically though.
- you can expand the program by an inbuilt programming language. If you
  think you can come up with a better mapping algorithm you can write
  one of your own.
- as a whole it seemed to be the largest piece of s/w i have ever seen
  on the amiga... Zillions of options, everything looks slick and organized 
  (unlike v1.4) and the general feeling is very professional.

Rumours indicate that the author has ordered a vivid card and will
port the rendering routines... Real time rendering? ;)

--
Harri Holopainen             .sig transit gloria mundi.
From: haraki@fermi.rc.m-kasei.co.jp (Susumu HARAKI)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Q: AVSS Files (IBM Action Media II)
Date: 16 Dec 92 10:49:54 GMT
Organization: Mitsubishi Kasei Research Center, Yokohama, Japan
In-reply-to: 75739@novell1.rz.fht-mannheim.de's message of 15 Dec 92 12:31:58 GMT

In article <75739.4.724422718@novell1.rz.fht-mannheim.de> 75739@novell1.rz.fht-mannheim.de (Joachim Pietzsch) writes:


 |1. Is it possible to select a special Frame out of an AVSS File to start the 
 |   Motion Video from it?
 |   To go fast forward in a Motion Video.

  For RTV there is no restriction. For PLV normally starting point
 must be a reference frame. So the posibility depends on the structure
 of the video. For example Thead.avs does not have the reference frame
 except the first frame.  

 |
 |2. Is it possible to divide an AVSS File in single Frames, to edit them and
 |   put them together again to an new AVSS file?
 |   To bring special effects in a Digital Motin Video? 
 |   

  Case by case. ;p 
  If you want to play back from HDD , then it is possible. 
  But please remember, it is easy to decode PLV files, but it is a
  little bit hard to compress the image into the same ratio of PLV
  unless you can write down micro code for the AMII board.
  
  In details please join the DVI mailing lists and ask there.
  Maybe you can get the answer.

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From: harti@mikro.ee.tu-berlin.de (Stefan Hartmann (Behse))
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: mpeg fmv capture and encoding, hardware?
Date: 19 Dec 1992 00:16:09 GMT
Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin
NNTP-Posting-Host: mikro.ee.tu-berlin.de

In <1992Dec16.151159.27124@microware.com> troyf@microware.com (Troy Frericks) writes:

>I am looking for a cost effective method to encode
>mpeg.  Add on cards for Mac or 'PC clones', or
>complete systems are being considered.  Does anyone 
>know of hardware that is out, or about to release.  

>Does anyone have information on "PC Hurricane".

>This is for personal use.  My questions are not those
>of the company I work for!
>-
>Troy Frericks                      Internet: troyf@MICROWARE.COM
>Microware Systems Corporation          UUCP: uunet!mcrware!troyf
>1900 NW 114th St                      Phone: (515)224-1929
>Des Moines, IA 50325-7077               Fax: (515)224-1352

Hi , I gonna post a picture of PC-Hurricane tonight on the
alt.binaries.pictures.misc and .utilities newsgroup in uuencoded
format.

Here comes the general info:


PC-Hurricane already ships !


It is a true color YUV realtime frame grabber and can store 25 frames
/sec(PAL) or 30 frames/sec(NTSC)  into Expanded Memory.
So if you have 32 MBytes of Ram on your motherboard, you can be happy.
Then you can store about 16 seconds of realtime MPEG resolution
320x240 true color video with one shot !
With the enclosed software you can save this with one command to
single TGA pics onto the harddisk.

Then, if you have the Xing Technology MPEG encoder, 
it will be possible to compress this about 400
TGA pics with just one second command to a MPEG movie !

So you have in about 5 minutes of work a ready to display MPEG movie !


PC-Hurricane has NTSC/PAL switchable. So it can also digitize NTSC
video.
If you want to have more infos on PC-Hurricane, please send me email !

Best regards, Stefan Hartmann,c/o Gatz & Hartmann
email to: leo@zelator.in-berlin.de
From: grege@chopin.asd.sgi.com (Greg Estes)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Video (from hard disk) to screen
Date: 18 Dec 1992 00:27:22 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Distribution: comp
NNTP-Posting-Host: chopin.asd.sgi.com

In article <1338@taniwha.UUCP>, paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell) writes:
|> In article <SUHONEN.92Dec7104750@jalka.jyu.fi> suhonen@jalka.jyu.fi (Timo Suhonen) writes:
|> >
|> >Hi!
|> >
|> >I'm looking for a way to pack digitized video frames to hard disk and
|> >further to show those packed files on screen (several pictures in second).
|> 
|> >I have hardware to digitize video (a SGI 4D/310GTX with VideoLab) and I can
|> >digitize video frame by frame. What is the best way to pack this information
|> >to disk? The things we really need are:
|> 
|> >Time for digitizing is irrelevant (less than 3 days would be nice). Number
|> >of video frames to be digitized at time is something like 750 - 1000.
|> 
|> >First I thought about Mpeg, but then I heard, that it only supports 320 x 240
|> >pixels. We can't go to so low resolution ('cause we need those pictures for
|> >an analyse, too).
|> 
|> Buy a SuperMac 'Digital Film' board for a Macintosh (and get a fast CPU and

(etc., etc.)

As an aside, an SGI Crimson (not a 310) VGX can run ~30FPS full resolution
uncompressed video from memory. So, if you can store the images in memory
instead of a disk, upgrading from a 310GTX to a Crimson/VGX may be a better
use of your money than starting all over on the Mac and going the JPEG path.
This would also allow you to take better advantage of your VideoLab board,
since the VGX graphics would get you all sorts of fun things, like writing
moving video into texture memory to map on objects, etc.

The disk performance is mainly gated by the speed of the SCSI bus.

Greg Estes
Silicon Graphics
From: rhyde@picard.ucr.edu (randy hyde)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Video for Windows?
Date: 12 Dec 92 23:47:40 GMT
Organization: University of California, Riverside

>>>> Who wants to become the Supermac of Video for windows...

How about Supermac?  They've ported their compact video codec over.
This is the codec which made QT 1.5 so much better...
The video spigot for windows should be out soon.
.
From: rkeel@fnugget.intel.com (William R Keel)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Convert Quicktime -> VfW?
Date: 15 Dec 92 19:26:59 GMT
Organization: INTEL.FOLSOM

OK...there is supposed to be a Quicktime to Video for Windows 
conversion program.  I would love to get my hands on it but 
I have no information - only that it exists.  If there is any
info, please post.
The main reason I am asking is 'cause I need some video clips
and don't know where to get any .AVI files.  So if you know
of any that I can FTP, please post also!

Thanx
Reed


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internet: rkeel@fnugget.intel.com
From: galenr@hpgrla.gr.hp.com (Galen Raben)
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:46:08 GMT
Subject: Re: Xing Mpeg palette problem
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Greeley, CO
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia

In comp.multimedia, kpm8447@tesla.njit.edu writes:

>I have the mpeg viewer for windows from Xing and have a problem.
>After viewing .mpg's, the background .bmp file's color map is all scrambled.
>Does anyone else have this problem and/or a solution besides restarting
>the machine?
>-- 

>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>Kirk Membry                                    "Our Age is the Age of Industry"
>                                                - Alexander Rodchenko
>kpm8447@tesla.njit.edu                                    kpm8447@teak.njit.edu
>kmembry@andromeda.rutgers.edu                            kpm8447@maple.njit.edu
>-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==

My tseng based video card has this same problem with the Xing 
mpeg player (1.0).  The easiest way to correct the background
is to open the clipboard viewer and then reclose it.  Apparently
Xing doesn't remap the Windows pallete back to its original 
colors...

- Galen -

Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: matts@microsoft.com (Matt Saettler)
Subject: Re: Convert Quicktime -> VfW?
Date: 16 Dec 92 20:25:44 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <BzBFD0.400@inews.Intel.COM> rkeel@fnugget.intel.com (William R Keel) writes:
>OK...there is supposed to be a Quicktime to Video for Windows 
>conversion program.  I would love to get my hands on it but 
>I have no information - only that it exists.  If there is any
>info, please post.
>The main reason I am asking is 'cause I need some video clips
>and don't know where to get any .AVI files.  So if you know
>of any that I can FTP, please post also!
>
>Thanx
>Reed
>
>
>--------------------------------------------------------------
>Who reads these things anyways?
>                                               The eye inside.        
>internet: rkeel@fnugget.intel.com

It is included in Video for Windows product.

-------------------------
I speak only for myself...
From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Video with a Mac
Date: 15 Dec 92 17:40:56 +1300
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

In article <85320@ut-emx.uucp>, claire@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Claire Sheppard) writes:
>
> 	I finally got my Mac IIvx. Now it's time to play[work].
> 	I want to use my Mac to edit wedding, reunion, and commercial videos.
> I saw a demo if the Macromind MediaMaker which has an EDL and also will control
> my 2 AG1960s and my Sony 8mm deck.

I don't know anything about MediaMaker, but another option could be to use
Adobe Premiere 2.0 with a video digitizer card to do off-line editing. You
capture a low-resolution version of your video sequences to disk and edit
them with Premiere, and it can export the results of your edits as a decision
list.

How does the procedure work with MediaMaker?

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+13:00
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: quayle@switch.rockwell.com (Bill Quayle)
Subject: Re: New Creative Labs Drivers
Keywords: CD-ROMS drivers
Reply-To: quayle@switch.rockwell.com
Organization: Switching Systems Division - Rockwell International
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 19:16:39 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.041003.8430@sactoh0.sac.ca.us>, bce@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Byron C. Ellis) writes:
|> I purchased the Multimedia Upgrade kit earlier this year in April, and I
|> was wondering there were any new CD-ROM drivers or a MSCDEX.EXE avalible
|> from Creative Labs, I had heard that there were new drivers that fixed
|> some of the old drivers, and that there was a new MSCDEX that worked with
|> DOS 5.0, without having to resort to SETVER, any information about what
|> the drivers are, where to get them, etc, would be much appreciated...
|>       Thanks.
|> -- 
|> Flying (v) : The art or knack of throwing : Byron C. Ellis
|> yourself at the ground and missing        : Internet: bce@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US
|> -The more than complete Hitchikers Guide  :
|>  to the Galaxy trilogy                    :

From comp.ibmpc.soundcard (or some such group:-)


....

	A couple of days ago, I and others wondered about the phone numbers
for Soundblaster support.  Well, I guess we should have looked on our 
warranty cards, 'cause that's where they're listed.  For those of you (like
me) who didn't bother to do so,

  408-428-6660
          6662
          6664

	They have the latest drivers and they _do_ make a difference in the
sound quality of midi files played from the Jukebox under Windows 3.1!!  Oh,
I think the line is a 9600 baud with full V32/V42 support (but then again, I
may be wrong). 

		"Ignorance is a
		 voluntary misfortune."
		  -- Nicholas Ling
		
		Bob (Belas@mbimail.umd.edu)



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From: makis@helios.unl.edu (Makis Maroulis)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Are there any Multimedia magazines?
Date: 14 Dec 1992 23:25:26 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln	
NNTP-Posting-Host: helios.unl.edu

Hi everybody.

I'm not very familiar with the subject, however a friend of mine(from abroad)
asked me to send him, managines that are specialized in multimedia. He also
mentioned that he doesn't want something like PC-Magazine,PC-World and such.

Thank very much in advance for your help.

Makis Maroulis
UNL
E-mail: makis@helios.unl.edu

PS. I tried to find  a previous FAQ posting, but I didn't manage to find any-
thing. I've heard that there is a site that sends (upon request) FAQ's for 
a specific group, but I don't know which is that site. Any help will be 
appreciated.
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From: stan.king@filebank.cts.com (Stan King) 
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Editing Movies
Date: 11 Dec 92 16:28:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The File Bank BBS - Fallbrook, CA  619-728-4318
Reply-To: stan.king@filebank.cts.com (Stan King) 

DC>        Is there any public/private software available to edit VHS/8mm Movies
DC>That is you read your movie into the computer, edit, add sound, and then
DC>write back out to a VHS/8mm format.

  If you find it, let me know also.....

---
 . SLMR 2.1a . Learn to fly. Skydive.
                                                                                                        
From: teoallan@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com (Allan TEO)
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 05:17:16 GMT
Subject: Re: New NEC CD drive? (Is it really available?)
Organization: HP Singapore Notes-Server
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia

Hi,
 I have the CDR 74 and the 83M... there is NO DIFF between the
 two cept for a dust cover... its not multisession compatible...
 so everyone says...

 However, Trantor will provide multisession capability for these
 nec drives via their new cdrom driver which is still under development..

 Regds
 Allan

Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: seanp@sdf.lonestar.org (Sean Peoples)
Subject: Re: Question about Creative Labs Multimedia Kit  
Organization: Best lil' ol' Pubnix in Texas
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1992 03:45:28 GMT

In article <ByqzIJ.L4M@rahul.net> jonathan@rahul.net (Jonathan Heiliger) writes:
>   I believe that the Multimedia Upgrade Kit includes the SoundBlaster/PRO 
>which is a 16bit card.  Or I know a friend that purchased that kit w/the 
>CDROM drive and it came with a SBPRO.

The SBPro is an 8-bit card.  The SBPro 16 is a whole seperate animal, it's 
very rare that you even find one at this point in time...But I feel it's 
more than likely that you'll see an MPC kit from CL with the SBPro 16 in
it soon enough.

Later...
 
-- 
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|__  ___   The .\ssylum BBS: 214-291-8771 Cedar Hill, Tx USA!!!
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     |     ... "Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?!?!"
From: dunguyen@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: >> Info on PS/2 CD-ROM drive needed!! <<
Date: 19 Dec 92 23:49:59 GMT

Hello,
I just bought a PS/2 CD-ROM drive.  My Always SCSI adapter reported
that it's a TOSHIBA XM drive.  Can you tell me something about
this drive, since no technical informations came with it.

Is it mutisession capable (XA architecture)?  Does it comply with
MPC multimedia (64K buffer)?  While you are at it, can you tell
me as much about this drive as possible?

Please help me, I have 30 days to return it.  Any info would be
appreciated!!!!

Thanks...  ..  Duc N.

(sorry, I don't have access to Alt.cdrom)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: seanp@sdf.lonestar.org (Sean Peoples)
Subject: Re: TV resolution?
Organization: Best lil' ol' Pubnix in Texas
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1992 03:37:15 GMT

In article <1992Dec4.092335.12600@waikato.ac.nz> ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes:
>2) I understand the standard for broadcast quality is for a colour resolution
>one quarter that of the b&w resolution. Thus if the b&w resolution is 400 lines,
>the corresponding colour resolution has to be 100 lines.

Is this for the PAL standard?  I know it is true for the NTSC video used in
the US and Japan, however, I don't think that it is the case for PAL signals or
equipment.
 
Later...
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___| |__|
     |     ... "Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?!?!"
From: gt1619a@prism.gatech.EDU (James McIninch)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Video for Windows?
Date: 14 Dec 92 15:02:37 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

In article <1992Dec14.025934.11509@ccsnews.ccs.mt.nec.co.jp| sugai@ccs.mt.nec.co.jp (Masaru Sugai) writes:
|In article <24362@galaxy.ucr.edu> rhyde@picard.ucr.edu (randy hyde) writes:
|>It's easy to get 10 fps playback from MPEG *if you have the right source
|>material*.  It's also hard to get beyond 3-4 fps if you have bad source
|>material.  I've just about completed 100 hours of measurements on Apple's
|>compact video format and I can tell you that the source material makes
|>a *big* difference in compression ratios, data transfer rates, data
|>decompression, etc.  A stable background with only a little movement
|>works much better with these codecs than, say, panning or zooming the
|>camera.  Of course, MPEG won't be of too much use to most of us until
|>the hardware codecs come along.
|
|I strongly agree with you. I wish there were some standard data set
|available which enable us to make fair comparisons among touted products
|in the market.  I would like to hear from MPEG people on this issue.
|
|- Masaru Sugai,	NEC Corporation, Japan
|-- 
|Masaru Sugai   NEC Corporation Tokyo Japan
|   sugai@ccs.mt.nec.co.jp, masaru@world.std.com

Check out ICD's new entry into the real-time 24-bit animation market for the
Amiga. It really make MPEG look pretty sad.


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School of Applied Biology       |
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Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: matts@microsoft.com (Matt Saettler)
Subject: Re: How is CD-Audio handled in MM, and particularly in MPC ?
Date: 17 Dec 92 21:51:17 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation
Distribution: usa

In article <1992Dec17.080854.671@shawn.uucp> root@shawn.uucp (Mark Jeghers -- UNIX/X/Motif Contractor) writes:
>Are audio clips generally driven by audio files, or does some 
>audio tracks get played directly from the CD player?  If direct
Both are possible.  Most applications use audio files from the
CD-ROM. However, some applications (where quality is important)
use CD-Audio (Microsoft Beethoven, for example).

>from the CD player, would there be some particular cabling
>arrangement between, say, the CD audio and a soundcard?  Is
Yes.  The MPC specification requires this cabling (it is called
mixing).  All the audio sources (MIDI synth, waveform audio and
CD-Audio are mixed by the hardware to one output port (ports
for stereo) to make it easy to connect speakers, etc.

>there typically any integration of the two (e.g. to sample some
>audio from the CD, etc) ?

Quality is usually the deciding factor.  MPC specification has
22Khz at 8bits as the standard.  If this is not high enough
quality (and you are willing to give up the space on the CD),
CD-Audio is much higher quality and will play on every MPC system.

>
>Pardon the ignorance in my questions, it's the only way to learn
>sometimes... :-)
>
>Thanx,
>
>Mark Jeghers
>408/281-4823 [voicemail]
>