Re: Multimedia programming

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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato Uni...
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 05:03

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In article <1992Aug6.135956.9902@waikato.ac.nz>, I said:
> The Windows Multimedia Extensions don't actually provide any hardware-
> independent support for digital video--whether displaying live
> video-in-a-window, capturing it to disk, or playing captured video back from
> disk.

Well, two out of three isn't bad... :-}

I went back and checked my copy of the Windows Multimedia Extensions
Programmer's Reference, and it appears that the Media Control Interface
*does* include support for "video overlay" devices. However, I gather this
only goes as far as live video in a window on-screen; there's no support
for video capture in any kind of device-independent format. And certainly
Windows lacks any kind of decent image-compression services.

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From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
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Subject: Re: Multimedia programming
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Date: 7 Aug 92 17:03:00 +1200
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