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Subject: MPEG-FAQ: multimedia compression [6/6]
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.graphics.animation,comp.compression,comp.multimedia,alt.binaries.multimedia,alt.binaries.pictures.utilities,alt.binaries.pictures,alt.binaries.pictures.d,alt.answers,comp.answers,news.answers
From: [e-mail] (Frank Gadegast)
Date: 22 Aug 1994 12:31:26 GMT

Archive-name: mpeg-faq/part6
Last-modified: 1994/08/22
Version: v 3.2 94/08/22
Posting-Frequency: bimonthly


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Site: merlin.etsu.edu [192.43.199.20]

Site: mm-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu [128.32.149.157]
Dir : /pub/multimedia/mpeg

Site: nic.funet.fi [128.214.6.100]

Site: oak.oakland.edu

Site: phoenix.oulu.fi [130.231.240.17]

Site: pinus.slu.se (130.238.98.11)
Dir : /pub/graphics/mpeg

Site: sumex-aim.stanford.edu
Dir : /info-mac/app

Site: suniams1.statistik.tu-muenchen.de [131.159.64.1]
Dir : /pub/mac/MPEG/encoder/...

Site: sunsite.unc.edu
Dir : pub/electronic-publications/IUMA

Site: wuarchive.wustl.edu [128.252.135.4]


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 VI.2 |
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Bryan Woodworth <[e-mail]> invites you to the ftp-server:

    ftp.rahul.net (192.160.13.1) in /pub/bryanw/pc/mpeg

Login as "anonymous," any time of the day or night.

[ Several MPEG-Information is located in the directory /pub/bryanw   ]
ear Bryan was the first one, that downloaded the brand new mpeg-player ]
[ from Xing's BBS and posted it to a.b.p.u, thnx to Bryan !          ]

He wrote:

If the people have problems connecting, they should send a capture of the
session to "[e-mail]," so that the problem can be corrected.

and wrote:

If people want to know where they can find the Microsoft Windows MPEG
player(s), DOS players, Amiga players, X Windows, VMS, and
Macintosh players, they could cd to:

/pub/bryanw/information

and retrieve:

WHERE.TO.GET.MPEG.PLAYERS

This file is posted biweekly to alt.binaries.pictures.*

The information subdirectory also contains an ABPE faq, this MPEG
faq :-), JPEG information, information on X-windows on PCs, and I
suppose that is all.. If I ever find good stuff, I put it here.


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 VI.3 | ACCESSING AMINET
------------------------

There are many other ways than FTP to access AmiNet:

- ADT. This is a front end for FTP that allows easy access to AmiNet.
  Get it from comm/misc/ and compile it on your UNIX box.
- FSP. AmiNet Files can be downloaded from the FSP site disun3.epfl.ch
  port 9999. Uploads are accepted and forwarded.
- NFS. The only AmiNet site that allows NFS mounting of the archives is
  wuarchive.wust.edu. FTP there and read the details in the /README.NFS
- IRC. On Internet Relay Chat, you can talk to various server robots
  like AmiBot, MerBot or Mama, to do queries and retrievals.
- Gopher. There is a gopher server for AmiNet at merlin.etsu.edu. To
  connect, use the command 'gopher merlin.etsu.edu'.
- Modem. In Germany, you can download the AmiNet files from the Incubus
  BBS, telephone number 0931 781464. The login is 'ftp', password 'ftp'.
- Usenet. A list of recent uploads is posted every week to the newsgroups
  comp.sys.amiga.misc and de.comp.sys.amiga.misc. Useful for mail servers.
- Mailserver. Sorry, no specialized e-mail server for AmiNet yet. But you
  can use [e-mail]. Send a mail with HELP in the body.
- CD-ROM. AmiNet is available on CD-ROM. Talk to [e-mail], or write
  to Walnut Creek CDROM, 1547 Palos Verdes Mall, Walnut Creek CA 94596, USA
  or phone [phone] or [phone] (FAX)


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 VII |  MAIL-ORDER
==================

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 VII.1 | TRAIL-PACK
-------------------


        ====================================================
        THE MPEG-TRAILPACK-CD   Fri Jul  8 01:44:55 EDT 1994
        ====================================================
        PHADE SOFTWARE Leibnizstr. 30, 10625 Berlin, GERMANY
        Inh. Frank Gadegast          Fon/Fax: [phone]

        [e-mail]


== INFO ===================================================================

You can purchase a complete archive named the "TRAILPACK-CD" including the
FAQ and all named programs, source-code, movies and information-files.
Just everything about MPEG-I and now even MPEG-II.

This "TRAILPACK-CD" is still sold on streamer-tapes, but NOW it's
available as ISO-9660 conform CD-Rom ! Readable on DOS, Windows,
Windows-NT, OS/2, Ultrix, SunOS, Solaris, Linux, Mac's ....

This archive includes (in addition to the ftp-access) all versions of the
programs and source-code, additional movies (including the audio-files)
and lots of additional informations.

Additional to any ftp-servers it contains special things, you can't find
anywhere but here. Like a DOS-port of the Berkeley-Encoder, other DOS-ports,
a security-filter for MPEG-I-stream called secmpeg, some selfmade movies.

The whole archive itself is organized as one big hypertext-document.
It includes a complete Wide-World-Webster (WWW) document, the tools to
use this document on Windows/Windows-NT-machines are included, most
UNIX-hosts can include the "TRAILPACK-CD" into their hyptertext-
services with a single link !!!


           THE HOST THE ARCHIVE IS ON IS NOT ON THE INTERNET !
                                         ===

Today the "TRAILPACK-CD" contains at least the following sections:

      9,115,890 G:\AUDIO
      5,615,273 G:\CDHELP
      1,519,167 G:\DEMO\PCHDEMO
      2,164,203 G:\DEMO
     11,672,774 G:\DOC
      2,409,841 G:\FAQ
    151,715,898 G:\IUMA
    129,613,395 G:\MOVIES
     10,299,484 G:\MPEG1
        250,441 G:\MPEG2
      8,610,993 G:\NVR
        581,273 G:\PHADESW
     53,380,969 G:\UTIL
     41,715,267 G:\VIDEOS
      2,454,664 G:\WWW
Total = 430,843,247 bytes

Please be sure, to get always the most-up-to-date description
of the Trail-Pack before requesting it ! Mail to [e-mail]
or find the MPEGFAQ (current Version 3.1). Look at the date of
this info file, something older than 3 month cant be up-to-date !

To obtain the "TRAILPACK-CD" fill the ORDER.FRM below and send it
(from overseas via air-mail !), with the big-written keyword
"TRAILPACK-CD" on the envelope to:

      PHADE SOFTWARE
      Inh. Frank Gadegast

      Leibnizstr. 30
      10625 Berlin

      G E R M A N Y

====================== cut here  cut here  cut here =======================

      ORDER-FORM for TRAILPACK-CD [Version 1.0]
      =========================================
             Fri Jul  8 01:44:55 EDT 1994

Please fill this form carefully to order the TRAILPACK-
CD-Rom Version 1.0. Then send it via letter to:

  PHADE Software
  Inh. Frank Gadegast

  Leibnizstr. 30
  10625 Berlin
  GERMANY

and put the money in the envelope, too. Please only send
GERMAN MONEY (DM), no checks, no post-depostits, no coins !!!

The price of the TRAILPACK-CD-Rom is DM 120.- plus

  o  DM 20 for shipping inside Germany and Europe
  o  DM 30 for shipping outside Europe.

If you order several CD-Rom's, you only have to add the
shipping fee ones !

Thats what you will have to change at your bank and to put
in the envelope (get somebody that watched you putting the
money in or insure the letter via post or do a moneyletter
or whatever to be sure, the money is not getting lost).

Exchange rate today is: 1 $ = 1.60 DM

=========================================================

Name         : _____________________________________
First Name   : _____________________________________
Title        : _____________________________________
Company      : _____________________________________

Adress       : _____________________________________
Town         : _____________________________________
Post code    : _____________________________________
Country      : _____________________________________

Fon          : _____________________________________
Fax          : _____________________________________
E-mail       : _____________________________________

Enter here the number of CD-Rom's you want (defaults
to 1):

(  ) number of CD-Rom's

I received information about the TRAILPACK-CD from:

( ) the Usenet
( ) Compuserve
( ) a Ftp-site, host-name : __________________________
( ) a Mail-Box, name      : __________________________
                Fon       : __________________________
( ) a friend
( ) a college

I intend to use the TRAILPACK-CD for commercial purpose
with the following description:

     ----------------------------------------------------
     ----------------------------------------------------
     ----------------------------------------------------

=========================================================

AGREEMENT: By signing this paragraph you agree, that you will not copy
           the complete TRAILPACK-CD or bigger parts of it to more
           than ONE computer nor publish it or bigger parts of it to
           any network or other public service, mailbox or other storage
           medias, like floppy-disk, CD's, MO-disks or tapes for
           redistributing purpose.

           You agree, that if you use the TRAILPACK-CD for commercial
           or any public use, the archives or a copy of the CD-Rom will
           remain complete, including all Copyright- and Readme-notices
           and if you make this CD-Rom available to the public, that ALL
           files will be accessable by the public.

           The use of single files or small parts to whatever purpose
           is hereby granted. The commercial use of this package is only
           allowed, if the kind of commercial use is reported to PHADE
           Software.

           This agreement does not touch any other regulations by the
           authors of the programs in this archive.


           =============       ======================================
             (date)                     ^-- sign here

====================== cut here  cut here  cut here =======================


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 VII.2 | CONVERSION
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PHADE Software is offering a video-conversion-service !

A conversion of 1 MB video (GL,DL,MPEG,AVI,DIB-seq, e.g.)
to one or the other format cost currently 30DM (20$).
Over 10 MB gets then really cheap only 15DM (10$).
Audio conversion is possible too (AVI, WAV, AU) and costs
the half of the video-price (but is included if there is
a video-conversion).

Please send any jobs or commercial mail to

    '[e-mail]'


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 VII.3 | FTP-MAIL
-----------------

FTPMAIL, obtaining files from a server via email which does the ftping for
you, is not the best way to obtain files via ftp, but for some it is the
only way.  To get more information, send email to one of the servers below
with the word HELP in the message body.

In North America:   Internet:  [e-mail]
                    BITNET  :  [e-mail] or BITFTP@PUCC

In Europe:  [e-mail]


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 VIII |  RETRIEVED MAIL
=======================

[ About what Xing is messing up again ... ]

Date: Mon, 3 Jan 1994 12:20:33 -0800 (PST)
From: Jared V Boone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: MPEG decoder...

Unfortunately, my program DOES NOT decode in real time.  But then, Xing's
program cheats.  It does not decode the entire file, but plays the lower
half of the subbands and only one channel of a stereo pair.  My program
will decode the whole thing, but there's a price to be paid.  Decoding
'together.mp2' takes approximately 797 seconds on a Intel 486DX2-66
Windows NT/Visual C++ PC, and 1152 seconds on a Intel 486DX2-66 NetBSD/GCC
V2.4 UNIX system.  So I guess that's about 3-5 times slower than necessary
for real-time playback.  I've got some tricks I want to try, but they'll
involve a lot of code modification.  I also don't think they'll make THAT
much difference.  We may be asking these processors to do more than they can.

I'll keep you posted...

Jared Boone ([e-mail])

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[ As of 1/1/94, a little bird told me... ]

Aware Inc. is considering making demo versions of their high quality MPEG
audio players/converters for Macs and SGIs available on the IUMA.

-IUMA staff

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[ And another little bird... ]

From: [e-mail] (Son of Sam)
Subject: Quicktime WITH MPEG
Date: 24 Mar 1994 09:07:39 GMT

I read a press release for Quicktime 2.3 (due to developers this month :)
and Apple claims that with this new version of their extension one can
get 15 fps at 640 x 480 on an LC 475! and Full motion (30 fps) at the next
screen size down....

    That's decent for a low horsepower machine.  Whether or not this
proves itself in practice, we'll see...

    But the real point of this post revolves around apple's
announcement that QT2.3 incorporates MPEG technology... That's right, now,
instead of needing to convert MPEG to QT, Macs will be MPEG savvy.  It
also mentions that you'll be able to encode MPEG's (with sound) with your
Mac...

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[ And here the biggest bird, gulp ... ]

From: [e-mail] (Chad Fogg)
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1994 18:05:04 -0700
Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re:  MPEGFAQ31: call for papers

The MPEG Software Simulation Group, a development effort comprised
of MPEG committee participants, will soon release both an encoder
and decoder for MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video.  Principle contributors
of the MPEG-2 S/W are: Stefan Eckart (Univ. Munich), Chad Fogg (Xenon
Microsystems), and Cheung Auyeung (Motorola). Systems software will be
included at a later date.

Also, the Committee Draft of ISO/IEC 11172-5 (Part 5) containing
software of MPEG-1 Systems, Video, and Audio will be presented
in May 1994.

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From: optimg![e-mail] (James W. Shoemaker)

[ He, that's Optibase' e-mail adress ! ]

Date: Mon, 22 Nov 93 09:59:37 CST
Subject: Re: MPEG realtime Encoder card shippin

We have a Real-Time full SIF MPEG encoding board from Optivision.
The board can only do I and P frames now, but B frames will be supplied
once new Microcode is available from C-Cube.

How much is the Encoder board ? Probably very expensive.. ?

The streams from this board have a few artifacts, but over-all look
quite good.

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From: "Cave Newt" <[e-mail]>
Date: Sat, 15 May 93 23:15:51 CDT
Subject: Re: THE MPEG-FAQ - Version 2.0 - Part [2/3]

>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. ]

I did so; I've never seen/used any other MPEG viewer, however, so
I have nothing with which to compare it.  Nevertheless...

On a 25MHz 386 running OS/2 2.0 GA+SP, and an ATI GUP with the
16-bit (slow) beta drivers, it displays roughly two frames per
second in default mode on an actual movie posted to a.b.p.misc
("fan_bulb.mpg").  On the index20.mpg, it managed two to three
frames per second; processing the whole file took exactly 15
seconds, of which about 2 seconds was initialization (before
any display).  The "-dither gray" option speeds things up by
perhaps 50%.

It's a port of "the Unix MPEG player," by which I assume the author
is referring to the Berkeley software-only decoder.  It gets the
job done, I guess...I have yet to try any of the "standard" mpegs
in the Berkeley collection.

Greg Roelofs

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From: Morten Hjerde <[e-mail]>
Date: 17 Sep 93 13:08:21 EDT
Subject: Re: MPEG-FAQ Audio-part ?

The people I know is working on MPEG is Philips/Compression Labs for their
"digital video" CD-I's. Digigram in France is producing some nice MPEG cards
for the PC. You would want to avoid their older PCX3 cards because their
MPEG implementation were a little odd. Their new PCX5 and PCX3 should be
fine. Cardinal are introducing an MPEG driver for their new PC card. The driver
has not been released. It's developed by Xing. I've played around with
earlier Xing MPEG Audio stuff and it looked and sounded nice. C-Cube also
have written an MPEG codec (for the AD2015 I believe). I don't know if they
are doing anything with it. For broadcast
industry use there are several others, also a couple of German vendors that
makes stand-alone units. I don't have their names here. Here in Norway Tandberg
are making a logger w. MPEG compression.
(I have no connection to any of the above)

Source code? I was hoping you could tell me that <g>.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Optibase
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 93 16:12:22 PDT

I recently bought the Optibase PCMotion Player.  This is the real
time MPEG 1 decompressor.  I have only tested it with a couple of
clips so far but it seems to work very well.  The decoded picture is
the best I have seen so far.  There are very few artifacts. The two
clips I have tested to date are tigers.mps ( a system level stream
they included with the board) and starwars.mpg (an older video level
clip I had sitting around.) The tigers clip was very good while the
Star Wars was not nearly as good.  I don't know if this reflects
advances in encoder technology or that Optibase does some funny
stuff with their files.

The board was very easy to install and ran pretty much the first
time.  The only problems I had with the company are that they are
very difficult to contact and seem to be understaffed.  I constantly
hear the excuse that Mr X has not been able to contact me because he
is very busy since he is on N different projects.  Also they seem to
be a funny company in that their employees seem to continually shift
between their Isreal and two US offices.  As you can imagine, it is
very difficult to contact people who constantly change continents!

The other big problem with the board is that it can only take data
in through the ISA bus.  It is not clear how to use this sort of
card in a network unless one is willing to dedicate the entire PC to
just one application.  The bus on my PC seems quite full when I use
this card.  I think using either a T1, MVIP, SCSI, etc interface
might make a more usuable card.

Overall, for the kind of money they want, it seems to be a
worthwhile board except the utility is limited to evaluation of MPEG
and some composing rather than watching actual movies since
networking is weak.


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 IX | ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
============================

[ Well, there are lots of MPEG-related papers at Berkeley's ftp-server. ]

From: Larry Rowe <[e-mail]>
Subject: mpeg to ppm
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 17:39:36 -0800

o papers/94MMComputing.ps.Z - copies of slides from a highlight talk at
  the UC Berkeley Industrial Liason Program on multimedia computing.  Main
  topics: importance of mosaic/www, video-on-demand architectures and problems,
  and desktop video conferencing.

o papers/CMMPEG-SPIE94.ps.Z - A paper describing the heuristics we used
  to implement synchronized mpeg video and sparc audio playback in the
  CMPlayer system.

o papers/VodsArch-SPIE94.ps.Z - A paper describing the architecture of the
  the Berkeley Distributed VOD System that is designed to store thousands
  of hours of video material on tertiary storage devices that can be staged
  to video file servers.

o papers/VodsDB-SPIE94.ps.Z - A paper that describes the metadata database
  in the Berkeley Distributed VOD System.  The database contains a variety
  of indexes to the video material which a user can query to locate material
  of interest.

o papers/VideoCompression-Usenix94.*.ps.Z - Copies of slides from an invited
  talk on Video Compression given at Usenix '94 by L. Rowe.  The BW file has
  a black and white version of the slides with 2 to a page, and the Color file
  a color version with 1 slide to a page.

o papers/dv-at-ucb.txt -- A survey of digital video research in the EECS
  Department at U.C. Berkeley.  This article will appear in the 1994 EECS/ERL
  Research Summary.

o papers/compressed.ps.Z

o papers/VodsProp93.ps.Z - a revised version of the Berkeley VOD Server
  proposal first released on August 20, 1993.

o papers/VODProp-Rowe.ps.Z -- a rough draft of a proposal to be submitted
  to NSF to build a video-on-demand system.  Novel feature of the system
  is that it includes a large tertiary storage archive and a metadata
  database with an ad hoc query browser to search for particular videos.
  The archive server talks to several video file servers so that an
  organization can share file servers.

o papers/MM93Talk.ps.Z is a copy of the slides used for the talk at the ACM
  Multimedia 93 conference for the previous paper. The performance
  numbers comparing the mpeg player on different platforms were updated
  the week before the conference so they reflect the most recent results.

o papers/{Mpeg94.txt,VODarch94.txt,VODdb94.txt} -- abstracts submitted
  to SPIE '94 that describe recent work on integrating our mpeg video
  decoder into the CMPlayer and the design of the UCB video-on-demand system.

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From: [e-mail] (rakeshkumar gandhi )
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 92 13:14:03 -0500
Subject: IEEE

There is MPEG Hardware review in IEEE computer graphics and application
magazine.

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From: Chad Fogg <[e-mail]>
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1993 02:02:58 -0700
Subject: Re: MPEG-2 FAQ -- first installment (draft)

Q. Is there a book on MPEG compression?
A. Yes, there will be a book published in Spring 1994 by the same
   authors who wrote the JPEG book (Bill Pennebaker, Joan Mitchell)
   with Didier Le Gall as an additional co-author.

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[ Only for Germans... ]

Ihr koennt den MPEG-draft-I beim Beuth Verlag bekommem.


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 X | WHERE TO FIND MORE INFOS
=============================

Well, first you can check the related news-groups:

  comp.graphics, comp.graphics.animation, comp.compression, comp.multimedia,
  comp.sys.amiga.multimedia, comp.mail.multi-media,
  alt.binaries.pictures.utilities

The first part of this FAQ about MPEG came from Mark Adler, published in
in FAQ for the newsgroup 'comp.compression'.

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Then you can ask 'archie' to find all NEW mpeg-releated software
by sending the following mail (with no title):

  set search sub
  prog mpeg mpg
  quit

to one of the following archie-mail-servers:

  [e-mail]
  [e-mail]
  [e-mail]
  [e-mail]
  [e-mail]
  [e-mail]
  [e-mail]


Or look for it with archie on the Internet like this:

telnet 128.214.6.102
archie
set search sub
prog mpeg mpg

quit

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Then you could look for a newer version of the first part of this FAQ via
ftp at:

    garbo.uwasa.fi (128.214.87.1), in /pub/doc-net

    The current version is named FAQC9301.ZIP

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Then get the newest version of this document

File: WHERE.TO.GET.MPEG.PLAYERS
Site: ftp.rahul.net [192.160.13.1]
Dir : /pub/bryanw/pc/mpeg

This file is posted biweekly to alt.binaries.pictures.*

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[ Then you can order information from C-CUBE ]

Subject: Announcing C-Cube product information request via E-Mail

All requests for general C-Cube product literature should be forwarded to:

    [e-mail]

Requests for specific JPEG or MPEG product information should be forwarded to:

    [e-mail]
    [e-mail]

Please include your complete name, address, phone and fax numbers in your
request. Thank you. C-Cube Microsystems

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[ For audio-related stuff look into the IUMA archive. ]

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                         How to Use IUMA
Last edited 2/2/94

Here are a few pointers about how to make the most efficient use of
IUMA and the music on it. You may also wish to peruse the
Frequent Asked Questions (FAQ), although it's currently undergoing a
complete revision. 8)

The first and most important thing to note is that IUMA is best explored
and used via World-Wide Web (WWW) clients such as Lynx and NCSA Mosaic.
The WWW is a hypertext-based method of purusing the net that is
both more intuitive than FTP and Gopher, yet downwards compatible with FTP
and Gopher.

NCSA Mosaic requires a direct network connection or SLIP to the Internet
and versions are available for Xwindows boxes, Macintoshs and Windows PCs.
FTP to "ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu" and look in the dir "/Mosiac" for all current
versions.

Lynx is a very good text-mode WWW browser available as UNIX program that
one runs from their UNIX account. As long as "tar" and "uncompress" are
not foreign to you, you should have no problems making it work.
You can FTP lynx from ftp.wustl.edu in the /packages/www dir.

---

The next most important thing to first realize is that all of the music on
IUMA comes a few forms:

MPEG
  This is the format of the best stereo copies of the music online. You need
  a special player to decode the MPEG compression and play the music on your
  system once it's downloaded. IUMA has a few freely distributable
  MPEG audio players already available for you to download:

    XingSound Player for Windows as mpgaudio.zip
    Tobias Bading's MPEG audio player source as maplay.tar.Z
       People using this on UNIX workstations (particularly Suns),
       should take a look at the accompanying textfiles.

    Aware Corporation has graciously produced a shareware MPEG audio player
    for the Macintosh which will be availble for distribution in the
    next few weeks.

ADPCM
  The ADPCM format is probably going to be phased out of being included
  in IUMA since the quality is not as good as MPEG II. In any case,
  the files have the extension .WAV and are in the MS-ADPCM format.
  The program Cool Edit (cool131.zip) can decode and play them on
  Windows PCs.

AU
  Some (eventually all) bands will have a Sun Audio (au) sample file which
  is available to download a small 15 second sample of the band before
  deciding that you wish to download the entire MPEG song. When listening
  to these note that the Sun Au files are 8bit mono for that full-on
  compressed midrange AM Radio sound and therefore will sound nothing
  remotely like the awesome stereo MPEG file. Most machines can
  understand this format so nothing special should be needed beyond normal
  audio tools to download and play these files. Player for Macintoshes
  and Windows PCs can be found on the Internet.

If you have any questions please mail [e-mail].

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[ And the first WWW-server for Fractals, probably coded with MPEG ! ]

From: [e-mail] ( Frank ROUSSEL )
Subject: * FRACTAL MOVIE ARCHIVE *
Date: 21 Mar 1994 21:39:27 GMT
Organization: CRI/CICB Universite' de Rennes 1 - FR

I'm proud to announce you that a Fractal Movie Archive
has been opened at the CNAM of Paris.
URL = http://www.cnam.fr/fractals/anim.html

You may also have a look at the Fractal Art Gallery too.
URL = http://www.cnam.fr/fractals.html

NOTE: You can also accede via ftp.cnam.fr:/pub/Fractals

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From: [e-mail] ( Frank ROUSSEL )
Subject: * SPACE MOVIE ARCHIVE *
Date: 21 Mar 1994 21:39:52 GMT
Organization: CRI/CICB Universite' de Rennes 1 - FR

I'm proud to announce you that a Space Movie Archive
has been opened at the CRI-CICB of Rennes.
It consists of about 90 anims, the biggest archive i know.

English URL = http://www.univ-rennes1.fr/ASTRO/anim-e.html
French  URL = http://www.univ-rennes1.fr/ASTRO/anim-f.html

Some new clickable cards (mainly on planets & shuttles)
have been added to the astronomy page (images, animations)
English URL = http://www.univ-rennes1.fr/ASTRO/astro.english.html
French  URL = http://www.univ-rennes1.fr/ASTRO/astro.french.html

NOTE: You can also accede via ftp.univ-rennes1.fr:/pub/Images/ASTRO,
                       or via gopher.univ-rennes1.fr:/Astro Gopher

The IP address is 129.20.254.1 for all.


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 XI | NEWS
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News from the CeBit '94 in Hannover:

The real sensation is the ReelMagic-Card ! Look above.

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New MPEG VideoCD and CD-I service available !
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Get your own VideoCD or CD-I done via the service bureau !

We offer you the full service to produce an MPEG VideoCD or a CD-I disk with
MPEG full-motion video on it for you.

Just provide the video tapes (S-VHS / Hi-8) and get your own VideoCD back,
playable on Sigma Design's Reel Magic MPEG card, Amiga CD-32 and
Phillips CD-I player. (soon coming out: GOLDSTAR- and JVC- and SAMSUNG-VideoCD
players for around 350 US$ enduser price)

(In this moment we only offer PAL standard VideoCDs and CD-Is, which also could
be played with NTSC players; call for NTSC version)

Please call for current rates:
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Hartmann Electronics
Mr. Dipl. Ing. Stefan Hartmann
Berlin, Germany

Tel: ++ 49 30 344 23 66

email:
[e-mail]

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Leadtek was showing there DOS-full-screen-MPEG-player. They double
the pixel in a tricky way, so they get 640x400 and the quality is
really good. They told me, the player (with lots of additional
software) is to buy for about $900. The contact address is:

  Mr. Terry Yeu          at

  Leadtek Research Inc.
  Computer Graphics, Multimedia Design & Manufacture

  5F, NO. 4, Alley 11, Lane 327, Sec. 2, Chung-Shan Rd.,
  Chung-Ho, Taipei Shien,
  TAIWAN R.O.C.

  Tel: [phone] Ext 113
  Fax: [phone]

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Sun has a new version of there 'Multimedia Solutions for Workgroup'
out. And (but this is not official), they will support MPEG, but this
was not to be seen.


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 XII | QUESTIONS
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These are some questions, ideas or whatever problems, where still no
solutions is found or nobody knows an answer. Please contact me via e-mail
if YOU find a solution for:

1) Interleaving should be the next step in MPEG-development.
   There free audio- and video-code now. Now we have to
   synchronize it. Stefan Eckhardt and Simmons bith can split
   a full-MPEG-stream, but there's no code !
   So, who's working on it ?

2) Are there multimedia-specialized mailboxes out there ? Please send
   a filelisting of your mpeg-archive, a description of how to obtain
   the files, costs, connection times, telefon-numbers etc.

3) Who can send me informations about MPEG-I-Videos stored on CD-I CD's ?
   Are there driver or programs that read CD-I CD's with a coumputer
   CD-ROM-drive to explucde the MPEG-parts ?

4) I'm still looking for some programs, that I cant find anymore.
   One is called "MPEGVU", the other one "SPRAW", a program to
   convert real MPEG-stream into Xing-format (well we would
   really need one, thats doing the other way around).
   Whos has them ? Who knows more ?

5) I still look for the following streams. I know they exist, but
   they are NOT online. Who are the authors, where can I ftp them ?

   dcx-flare.mpg dcx-launch.mpg ferris-sif.mpg
   football.3mbit.mpg football1-qsif.mpg football1-sif.mpg
   football2-qsif.mpg football2-sif.mpg football3-qsif.mpg football3-sif.mpg
   gmsearth.mpg goats.mpg kathy.mpg laputa.mpg mclyte.mpg nlm.mpg
   pingpong-qsif.mpg pingpong-sif.mpg pingpong-varq2.mpg pingpong-varq3.mpg
   simulation.mpg tearsforfears.mpg tm-op.mpg tue.world.mpg
   windmill-qsif.mpg windmill-sif.mpg

6) Who likes to buy the TRAILPACK on CD ? I need about 15 customers
   buying it, so the production cost come back in. The calculated
   price will be DM 100.- (or $ 70). Please see below the TRAILPACK-
   INFO ...


Please mail to:

  [e-mail]

if you have more information, than I have.

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The end of ...

        THE MPEG-FAQ
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        PHADE SOFTWARE Leibnizstr. 30, 10625 Berlin, GERMANY
        Inh. Frank Gadegast          Fon/Fax: [phone]

        [e-mail]

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