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For Win32s+Window3.1 users I also suggest you restart windows and/or reboot your machine after running the player. This player can Play both Xing(tm) 160x120 MPEG movies and standard 320x240 encoded movies. Note at present only the 24bit full color ditherer is implemented. This means that dithering the image down to 256 or 16 colors is done via the Windows DIB's driver. For best results you need either a 24bit or 15bit (hicolor) graphics card. Using Hicolor mode gives much better images than the Xing(tm) Player. At present I am working on getting the other ditherers working. This player has been run on the following two machines: (1) OPTI 486DX33 with 8Mb,Trident 1MB Video card in 640x480x16 Mode,120MB Hard disk and running Windows NT(tm). (2) SMI 486DX33 with 8Mb,ATI 2MB ULTRA + in 800x600x65K Mode, 200MB Hard disk and runing Win32s and Windows 3.1. It may not run on a machine with only 4Mb. To install the player copy the files to your hard disk then create a new program item by selecting the Program Manager File/New menu item. There are two versions of the player included mpegplay.exe and mpegply2.exe. mpegply2 is the same as mpegplay.exe but attempt to completly hog the cpu. The machine will not respond to any input while it is playing movies. To Play a movie perform the following: (1) Start the player either from the NT command prompt or via the Program Manager. (2) Select the Open Menu item from the File Menu. (3) type "*.mpg" into the file name dialog box. (4) select the file you wish to play. (5) Select Play from the Movie Menu (6) The movie will now play. (7) if you are running the mpegplay.exe player you may select Stop from the Movie Menu and then Open another movie for playing. Note - The player will Exit when/if it gets to the end of the Movie. The "Actual Size" and "Stretch to Window" options in the Display Menu determine whether the movie images are displayed as actual size (centered in the middle of the windows client area) or scaled to fill the windows entire client area. The Player will also play as an Icon if Iconified. This player is very easy to cash. Some known Bugs are (1) image is horizontally flipped.(Hey at least its not upside down!). (2) Player will cash if another movie is opened while the current movie is playing. (3) Stretch to window and Iconic play back modes are not functioning under win32s. (4) The common dialog box file selection filters are not working. (5) Fails to free memory after exit. The next release of this player should be much more stable. Please send suggestions and comments to msimmons@ecel.uwa.edu.au Windows NT(tm) is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Xing(tm) is a trademark of Xing. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- III.4 | OS/2 ------------- From: hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton) Subject: Re: OS/2 MPEG player??? Date: 19 Apr 93 20:14:46 GMT There appears to be an OS/2 MPEG player; haven't used it, but the hobbes (ftp-os2.nmsu.edu) listing shows the following: mpegplay.zip 97028 Full-screen 320x200 MPEG animation player in pub/os2/2.x/graphics. [ Would be nice, if somebody could test this, and post some results. ] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- III.5 | X-WINDOWS and Unix --------------------------- The Berkeley Plateau Research Group is happy to announce the release of Version 2.0 of its software-only MPEG decoder. The player is available via anonymous ftp from toe.cs.berkeley.edu (128.32.149.117) in /pub/multimedia/mpeg/mpeg_play-2.0.tar.Z. You'll find many sample MPEG streams in the subdirectory movies. Changes from v1.2 include: o Fixed green artifact bug. o Fixed sequence end code bug. o Many bug fixes. o Performance tweaks. MPEG Video Software Decoder (Version 2.0; Jan 27, 1993) Lawrence A. Rowe, Ketan Patel, and Brian Smith Computer Science Division-EECS, Univ. of Calif. at Berkeley This directory contains a public domain MPEG video software decoder. The decoder is implemented as a library that will take a video stream and display it in an X window on an 8, 24 or 32 bit deep display. The main routine is supplied to demonstrate the use of the decoder library. Several dithering algorithms are supplied based on the Floyd-Steinberg, ordered dither, and half-toning algorithms that tradeoff quality and performance. Neither the library nor the main routine handle real-time synchronization or audio streams. The decoder implements the standard described in the Committee Draft ISO/IEC CD 11172 dated December 6, 1991 which is sometimes refered to as "Paris Format." The code has been compiled and tested on the following platforms: HP PA-RISC (HP/UX 8.X, X11R4) (i.e., HP 9000/7XX and 9000/3XX) Sun Sparc (SunOS 4.X, X11R5) DECstation 5000 and Alpha IBM RS6000 Silicon Graphics Indigo MIPS RISC/os 4.51 Sequent Symmetry Sony NEWS and more than we can list here. If you decide to port the code to a new architecture, please let us know so that we can incorporate the changes into our sources. This directory contains everything required to build and display video. We have included source code, a makefile, an Imakefile, installation instructions, and a man page. Data files can be obtained from the same ftp site this was located in. See the INSTALL file for instructions on how to compile and run the decoder. The data files were produced by XING. XING data does not take advantage of P or B frames (ie, frames with motion compensation). Performance of the player on XING data is significantly slower (half or less) than the performance when motion compensated MPEG data is decoded. We are very interested in running the software on other MPEG streams. Please contact us if you have a stream that does not decode correctly. Also, please send us new streams produced by others that do utilize P and B frames. NOTE: One particular XING data file: raiders.mpg, is not a valid MPEG stream since it does not contain a sequence header. We have established several mailing lists for messages about the decoder: mpeg-list-dist@CS.Berkeley.EDU General information on the decoder for everyone interested should be sent to this list. This should become active after 11/20/92 mpeg-list-request@CS.Berkeley.EDU Requests to join or leave the list should be sent to this address. The subject line should contain the single word ADD or DELETE. mpeg-bugs@CS.Berkeley.EDU Problems, questions, or patches should be sent to this address. Our future plans include porting the decoder to run on other platforms, integrating it into a video playback system that supports real-time synchronization and audio streams, and further experiments to improve the performance of the decoder. Vendors or other organizations interested in supporting this research or discussing other aspects of this project should contact Larry Rowe at Rowe@CS.Berkeley.EDU. We also plan on producing an MPEG encoder. The encoder will NOT be a real time digitizer, but will be intended for offline processing of video data. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: We gratefully thank Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu, the Semiconductor Research Corporation for financial support. We also want to thank the following people for their help: Tom Lane of the Independent JPEG Group provided us with the basic inverse DCT code used by our player. (tom_lane@g.gp.cs.cmu.edu) Reid Judd of Sun Microsystems provided advice and assistance. Todd Brunhoff of NVR provided advise and assistance. Toshihiko Kawai of Sony provided advise and assistance. [ Brilliant !!! With a bit a power from a Sun or something like ] [ this, MPEG can be real fun. There is no real user-interface, ] [ but the quality is first class !! Very easy to compile !!! ] [ Version 1.2 is just relased. Now with Imakefile and lots of ] [ bug-fixes. Executable is much smaller. Still gets some colors ] [ wrong (with some movies). ] [ Version 2.0 is released and fixes this color- and other bugs. ] [ Running as well on : [ PC 386/486 ISC, Linux, SCO, 386BSD X11R3/R4/R5, Xfree86 ] [ NeXT NeXTStep NeXT Window, X11R5 ] [ Mac's AUX (with gcc1.37) X11-lib ] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ Brand new. The codec ! Meaning a Public-Domain-Encoder-Kit for Unix ! ] From: msimmons@ecel.uwa.edu.au (Michael Simmons - mgmt_staff) Subject: Standford MPEG codec Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1993 16:07:18 +0800 (WST) MPEG, CCITT H.261 (P*64), JPEG Image and Image sequence compression/decompression C software engines. The Portable Video Research Group at Stanford have developed image/image sequence compression and decompression engines (codecs) for MPEG, CCITT H.261, and JPEG. The primary goal of these codecs is to provide the functionality - these codecs are not optimized for speed, rather completeness, and some of the code is kludgey. Development of MPEG, P64, and JPEG engines is not the primary goal of the Portable Video Research Group. Our research is focused on software and hardware for portable wireless digital video communication. For more information about current research, please send e-mail to Professor Teresa Meng at meng@tilden.stanford.edu. COMMENTS/DISCLAIMERS: This code has been compiled on the Sun Sparc and DECstation UNIX machines; some code has been further checked on the HP workstations. For comments, bugs, and other mail relating to the source code, we appreciate any comments. The code author can be reached at Andy C. Hung at achung@cs.stanford.edu. The standard public domain disclaimer applies: Caveat Emptor - no guarantee on accuracy or software support. References related to these codecs should NOT use any author's name, or refer to Stanford University. Rather the Portable Video Research Group or the acronym (PVRG) should be used, such as PVRG-MPEG, PVRG-P64, PVRG-JPEG. CODEC DESCRIPTION: I) PVRG-MPEG CODEC: (havefun.stanford.edu:pub/mpeg/MPEGv1.0.tar.Z) This public domain video encoder and decoder was generated according to the Santa Clara August 1991 format. It has been tested successfully with decoders using the Paris December 1991 format. The codec is capable of encoding all MPEG types of frames. The algorithms for rate control, buffer-constrained encoding, and quantization decisions are similar, but not identical, to that of the (simulation model 1-3) MPEG document. The rate control used is a simple proportional Q-stepsize/Buffer loop that works though not very well - better rate-control is the essence for good quality buffer-constrained MPEG encoding. Verification of the buffering is possible so as to provide streams for real-time decoders. The MPEG codec performs compression and decompression on raw raster scanned YUV files. The companion display program for the X window system is described in section IV) below. A manual of approximately 50 pages describes the program's use. There are also MPEG compressed files from the table tennis sequence in tennis.mpg and the flower garden sequence in flowg.mpg. This codec was recently tested with the MPEG decoder of the Berkeley Plateau Research group. If what you want is decoding and X display, then you might want to look into their faster public domain MPEG decoder/viewer. The Berkeley player is available via anonymous ftp from toe.cs.berkeley.edu (128.32.149.117) in /pub/multimedia/mpeg/mpeg-1.2.tar.Z. II) PVRG-P64 CODEC: (havefun.stanford.edu:pub/p64/P64v1.0.tar.Z) This public domain video encoder and decoder is based on the CCITT H.261 specification. Some encoding algorithms are based on the RM 8 encoder. The codec has been tested against itself, though we were unable to test it against the INRIA encoder because apparently INRIA also interleaves/packetizes the audio and video. We would appreciate anyone having p64 video test sequences to let know. Like the MPEG codec, it supports all the encoding and decoding modes, and has provisions for buffer-constrained encoding, so it can produce streams for real-time decoders. The H.261 codec takes the similar YUV raster scanned files as the MPEG codec, and performs compression and decompresion on raster scanned YUV files. It can take standard CIF or NTSC-CIF files. The display of these programs is described in section IV) below. A manual of approximately 50 pages describes its use. There are also P64 compressed files from the table tennis sequence in table.p64 and the flower garden sequence in flowg.p64. III) PVRG-JPEG CODEC: (havefun.stanford.edu:pub/jpeg/JPEGv1.0.tar.Z) This public domain image encoder and decoder is based on the JPEG Committee Draft. It supports all of the baseline for encoding and decoding. The JPEG encoder is flexible in the variety of output possible. It also supports lossless coding, though not as speedy as we would like. The manual is approximately 50 pages long which describes its use. The display program for JFIF-style (YUV) files is described in section IV) below. The JFIF style is not a requirement for this codec - it can compress and decompress CMYK, RGB, RGBalpha, and other formats - this codec may be helpful if you wish to extract information from non-JFIF encoded JPEG files. This codec has been tested on publicly available JPEG data. For general purpose X display, you might want to try the program "xv" (version 2.0 or greater). The JPEG engine of the program "xv" is based on the free, portable C code for JPEG compression available from the Independent JPEG Group. (anonymous login - ftp.uu.net (137.39.1.9 or 192.48.96.9) /graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v4.tar.Z). IV) X VIEWER: (anonymous login- havefun.stanford.edu:pub/cv/CVv1.0.tar.Z) This viewer allows the user to look at image or image sequences generated through the codecs described above. These image or image sequences are in the YUV colorspace and may be 4:1:1 (CIF style) or 2:1:1 (CCIR-601 style) or 1:1:1 (non-decimated style). A short manual of approximately 2 pages describes its use. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. I am especially grateful to Hewlett Packard and Storm Technology for their financial support during the earlier stages of codec development. Any errors in the code and documentation are my own. The following people are acknowledged for their advice and assistance. Thanks, one and all. The Portable Video Research Group at Stanford: Teresa Meng, Peter Black, Ben Gordon, Sheila Hemami, Wee-Chiew Tan, Eli Tsern. Adriaan Ligtenberg of Storm Technology. Jeanne Wiseman, Andrew Fitzhugh, Gregory Yovanof of Hewlett Packard. Eric Hamilton and Jean-Georges Fritsch of C-Cube Microsystems. Lawrence Rowe of the Berkeley Plateau Research Group. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- III.6 | MAC ------------ From: menes@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Rainer Menes) Subject: MPEG player for the Mac!!! Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1993 15:58:53 GMT Dear mac users, To bring the romuors to an end. To day I announce the MPEG player for the Mac. The distribution is based on the X-Window player 2.0 from Berkley. From a mac users view I would rate the program not to be a real mac application, but it does its duty. The packeged includes two application one to view MPEGs on a Mac in a window, and another to convert MPEGs to PICTs. These PICTs can be use to convert a MPEG film to a quicktime film. This way isn't a hit but it works. On a Quadra 700 you get up to 5 frames a sec for some MPEG films. So don't be dispointed when your old MacII only gets 1 frame/ sec. or so. MPEG is quit heavy stuff for realtime MPEG I have seen that you need around 1 Gops (Giga Operations per Sec.) to decode and 4-5 Gops for encoding. This shows you why MPEG algorithm in software is so slow. One remark for PC users the XING mpeg player for Windos isn't a real mpeg player, it has a lot of limitations which the MPEG player for the didn't have, and this makes this thing alot faster. The Mac player should be able to view any standard MPEG file, even that one produced by the sortly available hardware from c-cube. Now I have talk a lot, here is the ftp site you will find my MPEG player. ftp suniams1.statistik.tu-muenchen.de (131.159.64.1) login: anonymous password: your mailaddress cd /pub/mac filename: mpeg_mac_0.15.sit.hqx (BinHex4.0 format and Stuffit 1.51 format) and alot of example files. If you have the old version of MPEG player for the Mac 0.1 try to get the new one 0.15. This version should be compatible also to Macs without FPU, but a 68020 or up is requered. (MacII, MacIIcx, MacIIx, MacIIci, MacIIsi, SE-30, MacIIfx, Clasic II, LC I II III, Quadra 700, 800, 900, 950, Centris 610 and 650 with or without FPU, Color Clasic, and Power Books 145,160,165, 170,180). You should be able to use the player and converter on any screen from 538x384 to 1180x890 and form 1-Bit to 32-Bit per pixel. To avoid problems please read the Readme file which is include in the sit file. This file gives you some tips to work around some pitfalls with my player. Now have fun with the software, Rainer email: menes@statistik.tu-muenchen.de P.S: If you have problems please mail me, but sometimes it may take some time to get help, because today we got a big project and I will have very little time. [ See his other mail in the section Chapter VIII | RETRIEVED MAIL too. ] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- III.7 | ATARI -------------- From 72241.405@compuserve.com Tue Apr 13 17:56:15 1993 Date: 13 Apr 93 10:40:34 EDT From: Brainstorm <72241.405@compuserve.com> Bonjour!, For technical points about our MPEG decoder: It's a SOFTWARE ONLY decoder, currently running on any ATARI FALCON computers (not on the TT, because it uses the MOTOROLA DSP56001). Video output modes: - B/W, using a 4x4 bayer dithering matrix. - 4 greyscales, using a 4x4 bayer dithering matrix. - 16 greyscales, using a 2x2 bayer dithering matrix. - ATARI 15 bits true color (no dithering). We have to write the 256 colors and the 24 bits true color modes. Decoder's MPEG compatibility: It currently only handles I Frames. We have found some MPEG files with P and B frames, so it shouldn't a problem to implement P and B decompression. We don't handle MPEG sound, because it's currently impossible to find MPEG files with MPEG sound. The only card which seems to encode MPEG sound is from Optibase, and I ask them to give us a MPEG file with sound, but there were not very 'interested' in helping us... Decoder speed: It depends a lot of the MPEG file and display mode. Here are some benchmark with 4 known MPEG files: File Size (Bytes) Time (Frames/Sec) Video Mode F16.MPG 94959 12.15 320x200, 4 Col. (TV) F16.MPG 11.25 320x200, 16 Col. (TV) F16.MPG 9.10 320x200, T.C. (TV) MJACKSON.MPG 724567 13.82 320x200, 4 Col. (TV) MJACKSON.MPG 13.19 320x200, 16 Col. (TV) MJACKSON.MPG 10.40 320x200, T.C. (TV) ROM.MPG 250937 9.25 320x200, 4 Col. (TV) ROM.MPG 8.81 320x200, 16 Col. (TV) ROM.MPG 8.02 320x200, T.C. (TV) TAHITI.MPG 303547 11.87 320x200, 4 Col. (TV) TAHITI.MPG 11.28 320x200, 16 Col. (TV) TAHITI.MPG 9.45 320x200, T.C. (TV) Decoder Size: Currently, it's about 22Kb. P and B frames management shouldn't take more than 10Kb. Next Changes: 1: Speed: We expect to be 2 Frames/Sec faster in true color mode, and 1 Frame/Sec faster in other modes. 2: P and B frames compatibility. Decoder's Availability: Brainstorm is a small company, dedicated in writing software. We don't want to sell the MPEG decoder by ourself. That's why we are currently looking for a company interested in buying and distributing it. So, I can't tell you when it will be available, and what will be it's price. Brainstorm: 19 bis, rue de Cotte 75012 Paris FRANCE tel +(331) 44670809 fax +(331) 44670811 We can be reached at: - 72241.405@COMPUSERVE.COM or, maybe, - laurent.chemla@f200.n320.z2.fidonet.com ??? (we didn't test it) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From 72241.405@compuserve.com Fri Apr 30 16:08:25 1993 Date: 29 Apr 93 10:50:06 EDT From: Brainstorm <72241.405@compuserve.com> Brainstorm MPEG changes: Things are moving a lot! Last days, we have been working on speed improvements on our MPEG decoder. Here are the new benchmarks: File Size (Bytes) Av. Time (Frames/Sec) Video Mode BIRDISBA.MPG 502473 15.24 320x200, 4 Col. (TV) BIRDISBA.MPG 14.75 320x200, 16 Col. (TV) BIRDISBA.MPG 11.51 320x200, T.C. (TV) [ stuff deleted ] The decoder is now 32 Kb. As you can see, the speed depends a lot of the screen resolution. There are two main reasons: 1 - The Falcon video chip is connected to the MC68030 bus. It means that the video ram can be everywhere on the falcon RAM (on a PC, the video ram is on the video card). So, if you are using your computer on a nice video mode (i.e. true color), a lot of bus bandwidth is used by the video chip, and the 68030 is slower. 2 - In true color mode, the MPEG movie is displayed in color, and we perform 6 8x8 DCTs, and the colorspace conversion. In greyscale mode, we only perform 4 8x8 DCTs, and there is no colorspace conversion (we use the Y channel). One of our biggest problem in this decoder is that the Falcon is a '2 chips' computer: the MC68030 at 16 MHz, and the DSP56001 at 32 MHz. We are using both chips (the MC68030 for the Huffman decoder, the DSP56001 for everything else). The speed of the decoder is the speed of the slowest chip. Till last week, the slowest was the MC68030, but we have improved a lot the Huffman decoder. So, the bottleneck is now the DSP56001. Our next big job is the DSP code improvement. Best regards, Raphael (Brainstorm) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- III.7 | DATA ------------- Several data-files (.mpg) are known. See the list below: ---- Utilities (Players): ---- MPEGDOS.ZIP 22183 11-16-92 MPEGWIN.ZIP 462053 1-18-93 MPEG-2.0.TAR.F 99921 2-15-93 MPEG286 ZIP 115831 2-18-93 MPEG386 ZIP 114109 2-18-93 MPEGPLAY ZIP 97351 3-20-93 [ that's known as PLAYMPEG.ZIP too ! ] MPEGNT ZIP 140428 3-17-93 [ These are files from the Stanford-codec's ] CHANGES 1737 20-03-93 CVv1.1.tar.z 47849 20-03-93 JPEGv1.1.tar.z 172657 20-03-93 MPEGv1.1.tar.z 250732 20-03-93 P64v1.1.tar.z 202249 20-03-93 -------- MPEG-MOVIES --------- 2JAEGER MPG 70015 3-21-93 10:03a 2JETS MPG 416159 11-23-92 2:08p BIRDISBA MPG 502473 7-23-92 1:36a BIRDSHOW MPG 180963 6-04-92 1:01a BIRDWALK MPG 206417 6-04-92 12:48a EGGCLOCK MPG 157341 11-15-92 6:36p F16 MPG 94959 6-04-92 1:28a FIMPSY MPG 281960 3-20-93 11:21a FIMPSY50 MPG 240029 3-20-93 11:21a FIREFING MPG 37700 4-23-93 1:53p FLIGHT MPG 24 11-21-92 12:37p FRISCO MPG 84552 1-07-93 6:31p HULAHOOP MPG 114148 1-18-93 7:54p IICM MPG 1679360 2-24-93 3:15p JETS MPG 479434 3-20-93 11:21a JOEL MPG 285388 3-20-93 11:21a MICKY MPG 53411 3-20-93 11:22a MJ MPG 619275 2-11-93 2:07a MJACKSON MPG 784741 2-05-93 2:54p MODEL1 MPG 678804 3-20-93 11:22a MOGLIE MPG 292665 6-25-92 6:28p MONKEY MPG 169142 4-21-93 5:22p MOONFLAG MPG 118218 4-21-93 5:23p MOONFLY MPG 109622 4-21-93 5:25p MPGGENOA MPG 8241296 11-08-92 10:24p QUME MPG 364256 3-20-93 11:22a RAIDERS MPG 978660 12-21-92 2:33p ROCKET MPG 104987 4-21-93 5:25p ROM MPG 250937 11-24-92 10:13a SUKHOI MPG 140288 3-20-93 11:23a TEST10 MPG 32176 2-18-93 1:59p TEST2 MPG 102188 2-18-93 1:59p TEST30 MPG 14098 2-18-93 1:59p TEST4 MPG 63550 2-18-93 1:59p TEST6 MPG 47399 2-18-93 1:59p TEST8 MPG 37823 2-18-93 1:59p TOASTER MPG 78093 4-21-93 5:25p XTITLE MPG 2738 11-15-92 6:36p ------ XING-AUDIO-FILES ------- 2JAEGER WAV 51244 9-03-92 6:27p 2JETS WAV 59580 11-23-92 2:08p BIRDISBA WAV 145452 9-03-92 6:30p BIRDWALK WAV 49196 9-03-92 6:51p EGGCLOCK WAV 63572 8-25-92 9:58a JETS WAV 73772 9-03-92 6:03p MICKY WAV 20566 9-03-92 5:37p MJ WAV 286784 2-11-93 2:10a MODEL1 WAV 522290 2-11-93 12:27a MPGGENOA WAV 1520314 11-08-92 7:31p RAIDERS WAV 1301458 3-25-93 5:30p ------ BIG-MPEG-MOVIES ------- BICYCLE MPG 718897 3-19-93 2:02p BIKE MPG 642590 3-20-93 12:38p BUS MPG 718464 3-19-93 2:02p CANYON MPG 1744060 3-19-93 12:54p CT MPG 119040 4-21-93 5:26p FLOWERS MPG 690185 3-20-93 12:38p HULA_2 MPG 148076 2-15-93 1:28p MOBILE MPG 573440 3-17-93 3:29p SHORT MPG 83522 3-24-93 8:30p TENNIS MPG 1246001 3-20-93 11:08a WATERSKI MPG 417792 3-20-93 11:11a [ These BIG mpeg-movies are ONLY playable with the berkeley-decoder ! ] [ Xing does not support this format so far. ] ---- MPEG-DOCUMENTS ---- IMAGE-PS F 725803 1-14-93 ( ) [ overview about image-processing ] MM93-PS.F 242555 11-01-93 ( ) [ overview about MPEG decoding ] MPEGSRC.ZIP 92780 1-14-93 ( ) [ the source for MPEG128.EXE ] MPLAY-PS.F 205580 1-12-93 ( ) [ overview about a Media Player ] [ These are files from the Stanford-codec's. They include several ] [ Postscript-Pictures (describing the encoding process). The real ] [ documents are included in the src-archives of the codec's. ] JPEGDOCv1.1.tar.z 49873 20-03-93 MPEGDOCv1.1.tar.z 47645 20-03-93 P64DOCv1.1.tar.z 47497 20-03-93 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- III.8.1 | INFOS about Movies ----------------------------- The movie SAMPLE.MPG is now know as EGGCLOCK.MPG (surely the .WAV changed too). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- IICM.MPG was produced at the Institute for Information Processing and Computer Supported New Media (IICM) of the Graz University of Technology. It features a fly-by through (parts of) the Mandelbrot set through a terrain model of the surroundings of Graz with a corresponding satellite image used as texture map, and the 'Uhrturm' (clocktower), which is the landmark of Graz and the logo of the institute. Kein Wunder! It was produced using Wavefront's Advanced Visualizer on Silicon Graphics 4D/35 and converted to MPEG using Xing's encoder software for Personal Computers. Distribute freely! Frank M. Kappe fkappe@iicm.tu-graz.ac.at Institute for Information Processing and Computer Supported New Media (IICM) Graz University of Technology, Austria Voice: ++43/316/832551-22 Fax: ++43/316/824394 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: harti@mikro.ee.tu-berlin.de (Stefan Hartmann (Behse)) Subject: MPEG CD-ROM, how to submit animations. Date: 13 Feb 1993 13:07:16 GMT Hi, well I'm looking for animations "freaks" who want to see their work published on a CD-Rom. We will put together a CD-Rom with many MPEG animations and hope to find some people who will donate their FLI or FLIC animations to convert to MPEG animation format. We will do the conversion, so you just have to donate your FLI or FLC file. What will it bring to you, if you donate your animation ? 1. You will be included with your full adress in the doc files, so companies could contact you, if they wish to have some new art from you. 2. This CD-Rom will sell worldwide, so you might get known a little bit more than now... 3. You will receive 5 free copies of this CD-Rom, so you can sell it to your friends and earn some money from it. 4.The CD-Rom price will be not higher than about 39 US$, so you will get about 195 US$ for your work. You can get additional copies of this CD-Rom for to sell it to more friends at a very low price. 5. You will receive no royalities from this CD-Rom, but it sells at this low price which just covers the work for producing and distributing this disc worldwide. 6. Don't miss your chance to be included on the world's first MPEG CD-ROM with your best animation. 7. The best animation will win a prize ! So I hope this will convince you to contact me and that you would like to include your animation on our CD-Rom. If you still have any questions, please send me email. Best regards, Stefan Hartmann, c/o Gatz & Hartmann email to: leo@zelator.in-berlin.de Questions and answers: ====================== I have 24-bit stills that create an animation. I do not know how to create MPEG animations. The format is 24-bit Amiga IFF. Can we do business? Yes we can ! Just convert your single pictures via e.g. Art Department to JPEG pics and tell me on what FTP server you might put them up, so that I can get them from there. JPEG is preferred, cause it does not consume much space. What kind of format is this animation in now ? Is it FLI or FLC ? We have the possibility to convert FLI or FLC to MPEG. Also if you only have single pics, we can convert them to MPEG too. In this moment MPEG encoding runs via single TGA pics, so we have to convert your animation back to single TARGA pics and then convert them to MPEG via the Xing encoder. So I hope this will convince you to contact me and that you would like to include your animation on our CD-Rom. If you still have any questions, please send me email. What kind of animations would make a chance? Any just-playing-around-in-my- animations-software kind of animations or do they have to be state-of-the-art animations looking like professionals have produced it. Do they have to have a specific length (e.g. >30 frames) ?? No, we just take any animation which is not just a few flying dots on the screen... We prefer funny animations, but also like technical demonstrations or any raytracing art or simular animations done with Animator or 3DStudio. It has not to be state of the art ! We just want to have a Demo CD-Rom which shows what can be done with MPEG. When are you planning to release the cd (how much time is left). We plan to release this CD-Rom at May of this year 93 so your work should be finaly done soon, latest submission will be around 15th of April 93. Best regards, Stefan Hartmann, c/o Gatz & Hartmann email to: leo@zelator.in-berlin.de =========================================================================== IV | MPEG-RELATED HARDWARE =========================== The following is excerpted from: VIDEO COMPRESSION OPTIONS, IEEE CICC 6-May-92 by John J. Bloomer, jbloomer@crd.ge.com, Fathy F. Yassa, Aiman A. Abdel-Malek [The following telephone-numbers surely are US-numbers] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IV.1 | Pipelined Processors, Building Blocks (Chip Sets) --------------------------------------------------------- STI3220 = SGS-Thompson motion estimator (H.261, MPEG). 602-867-6279 - 8-bit input pixels, 4-bit H and V vectors out - adjustable block size matcher (8x8, 8x16, 16x16) - +7/-8 search window - 5V, 2W at 18MHz (max), 68 pin PLCC L647*0 and L6471* = LSI Logic H.621/MPEG pieces. 408-433-8000 - L64720 motion estimator, 30/40MHz, 8x8, 16x16 blocks, 32x32 or 16x16 TMC2311 = TRW CMOS Fast Cosine Transform Processor. - 12 Bits, 15 M pixels/s - complies with the CCITT SGXV (e.g. JPEG, H.261 and MPEG) - includes an adder-subtractor for linear predictive coding HGCT = Ricoh CRC, Generalized Chen Transform demonstration chip. 408-432-8800. - 2D JPEG/MPEG/H.261 compatible DCT - includes quantization - 30MHz, 15K gates - licensing possible Vision Proc. = Integrated Information Technology Inc. 408-727-1885 - generic DCT, motion compensated & entropy coding codec - microcode for still- and motion-video compression (JPEG, H.261 and MPEG1) - 1 micron CMOS, 20 MHz and 33 MHz, PGA and 84-pin QFP - JPEG only and JPEG/H/261/MPEG versions available, H.261 at 30 f/s. - used by Compression Labs, Inc. CDV teleconferencing system - rumored to be the heart of the AT&T picture phone AVP1000 = AT&T JPEG, MPEG and H.261 codec chipset. 800-372-2447 - 1400D decoder, 1400C system controller - 1300E H.261 (CIF, QCIF, CIF240) at 30 f/s, I-frame only MPEG. - 1400E is superset of 1300E, motion with 1/2 pixel resolution over +/- 32 pixels - YCbCr video or digital input, on-board rate FIFOs, external RAM required - 0.75 micron, 50 MHz CMOS 82750PB, 82750DB = Intel DVI pixel and display YUV color space processors. - proprietary machine code employed for compression - usable for other algorithms (e.g., JPEG, H.261 or MPEG1 at reduced data rates) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IV.2 | Pipelined Processors, Monolithic, Fixed Lossy ----------------------------------------------------- CL950 = C-Cube/JVC implementation of the MPEG-JVC or extended mode MPEG-I announced. 6-9 Mb/sec. CL450 = Announced June 1992. Scaled down version of CL950, with 3Mb/sec limit. Only MPEG-I decoding. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IV.3 | Codecs Chips Under Development -------------------------------------- MPEG1 codec chips due from - TI, Brooktree, Cypress Semiconductor, Motorola (successor to the DSP96002 Multimedia Engine), Xing Technology/Analog Devices, Sony and C-Cube Windbond Electronics Corp. is developing a DSP chip for CD-I, MPEG and JPEG ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IV.4 | DSP Chip Based JPEG/MPEG Solutions ------------------------------------------ Spirit-40 = Sonitech International Inc. ISA card. 617-235-6824 - two TMS320C40 DSPs for 80 MFLOPS - connect 16 boards in a hypercube for up to 1280 MFLOPS - JPEG, MPEG-1 audio and other voice coding applications HardPak = CERAM Inc., ISA and EISA file compression board. 719-540-8500 - 3.4 x 1.8 inch footprint (notebook, laptops) - 32KB on-board write-thru file compression cache - CERAM also has an SBus compressive swap-space accelerator for Suns macDSP = Spectral Innovations, AT&T DSPC32-based accelerator. 408-727-1314 - JPEG functions available - 30 MFLOPS on the NuBus =========================================================================== V.1 | MAILBOX-ACCESS ===================== This is the phone number of Xing Technologies' BBS: 805-473-2680 (2400b) (USA) Bryan Woodworth <bryanw@rahul.net> wrote: Would you also please add, that the Xing BBS now supports v.32bis and HST ! I am not sure on HST, but I am sure it supports v.32bis. However, I have a v.32bis modem, and could only connect at 9600. I think they do not have the modem configured properly. [ Well, Xing's software is dominating the MPEG-market, so what's about a ] [ Internet-Connection ? ] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- V.2 | ------ These are the phone numbers of Gatz & Hartmann's 7 line support BBS: ++49 30- 462 63 41 (v32bis) ++49 30- 462 64 35 (v32bis) ++49 30- 462 65 38 (v32bis) ++49 30- 462 60 22 (v32 + PEP) ++49 30- 462 61 37 (v32) ++49 30- 462 62 37 (v32) ++49 30- 461 86 50 (v22bis + HST) This is the professional Zelator-ACCESS-BBS system with Internet access. There will be several new MPEG clips and updates of the GENOA 7900 SVGA board drivers, 24 bit ET4000 programing infos,etc... Check it out ! You will enjoy it. Just log in with: guh That means: Gatz und Hartmann. =========================================================================== VI.1 | FTP-ACCESS (PD) ======================== There is an MPEG archive site at: phoenix.oulu.fi (130.231.240.17) in the directory /pub/mpeg Here is the current list from /pub/mpeg: -rw-r--r-- 471502 Sep 13 17:36 MPEGXING.LZH -rw-r--r-- 1192 Oct 2 21:48 TUTTIF3D.DOC -rw-r--r-- 502473 Jul 23 21:53 birdisba.mpg -rw-r--r-- 696 Jul 23 22:25 birdisba.txt -rw-r--r-- 233981 Jul 7 1992 joel.lzh -rw-r--r-- 1137 Jul 7 1992 joel.txt -rw-r--r-- 34283 Jul 7 1992 lha.exe -rw-r--r-- 278 Jul 7 1992 lha.txt -rw-r--r-- 292665 Jun 25 1992 moglie.mpg -rw-r--r-- 439 Jun 25 1992 moglie.txt -rw-r--r-- 244095 Sep 18 12:42 mpegplay-020792.lha -rw-r--r-- 368955 Sep 23 00:30 mpegplay.zoo -rw-r--r-- 721801 Jun 3 1992 mpgmovie.lzh -rw-r--r-- 368 Jun 3 1992 mpgmovie.txt -rw-r--r-- 978660 Sep 13 17:35 raiders.mpg -rw-r--r-- 250937 Jul 4 1992 rom.mpg -rw-r--r-- 951 Jul 4 1992 rom.txt -rw-r--r-- 534405 Jul 3 1992 sukhoi.mpg -rw-r--r-- 342 Jul 3 1992 sukhoi.txt -rw-r--r-- 414427 Oct 2 21:45 tuttif3d.lzh Please contact this ftp-site for files before e-mailing to me !!! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- VI.3 | ------- There is an MPEG archive site at: toe.cs.berkeley.edu (128.32.149.117) in the directory /pub/multimedia/mpeg --------------------------------------------------------------------------- VI.3 | ------- Gatz & Hartman BBS is now reachable via ftp, between 18.00 - 6.00 german time. Login as 'gast', then look for IBM-Files under File-Sector 14 : IBM_g_und_h zelator.in-berlin.de (192.109.42.11)