Re: Multimedia programming

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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato Uni...
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 04:57

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In article <ILW5UDP@zelator.in-berlin.de>, leo@zelator.in-berlin.de (Stefan Hartmann) writes:
> In <1992Aug6.135956.9902@waikato.ac.nz> ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes:
>
>>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. The only PC-level platform I know that does is a Macintosh with QuickTime.
>
>
> Hi, you are wrong !
> There is the free MPEG player from Xing Technology, that I have posted
> 2 weeks ago on a.b.p.misc newsgroup !
>
> It displays a 320x240 video window from a MPEG bitstream in realtime
> only by software decoding (30 frames/second on a fast 486 PC).
>
> And this testplayer is free !

An MPEG player doth not a desktop digital video system make.

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From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
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Subject: Re: Multimedia programming
Message-ID: <1992Aug10.165727.9986@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 10 Aug 92 16:57:26 +1200
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