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- From: dettmer@jupiter.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Thomas Dettmer)
- Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
- Subject: beginner questions
- Date: 31 Aug 1992 14:08:42 GMT
- Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany
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- Dear Reader,
-
- this is a request for information/advise/expertise experience from a
- newcomer to the topics of this group.
- Background: We are going to setup a first project in the Multimedia area.
- Knowledge about available hardware is low. As a result we need to have
- Hypermedia applications on PC basis, with integrated videos and sound. There
- must not be a video-disk or something the like used in the resulting
- application - therefore we need videos to be compressed in digital format on
- a harddisk.
- Additionally we have a group here, that wants to work in the hypermedia area
- on a MAC/QuickTime basis.
- A feature we need also is to cut new films out of digital videos and put
- them back out of the computer.
-
- We welcome any information about available hardware/software and other
- hints (including where to get -in germany if possible- from our experience
- dealers in dortmund are not well informed in dortmund..)
- Actually we have the following questions:
-
- what is the status of VideoMachine - which features will hard and software
- offer?
-
- Is there something comparable to Quicktime on PC basis (which would best
- work together with hardware data compression of viodeo)
-
- is there a way (standard format) to port videos in digital (and compressed
- if possible) format PC <-> MAC(QuickTime) -what are the implications on
- soft- and hardware we should buy?
-
- Thanks very much in advance.
- I'll summarize the results, of course.
-
- tom.
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- dettmer@ls1.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
- phone: +49-231 755 6323, FAX: +49-231 755 6555
- Thomas Dettmer, Dortmund University, Computer Science I
- Post Box 50 05 00, W-4600 Dortmund 50, Germany
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