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In article <1jcldnINN41b@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> roger@oit.itd.umich.edu (Roger Espinosa) writes:
>Hi.

Hi, Roger!

>
>Having had a lot of fun programming in Visual Basic for DOS at one of
>my jobs, I'm now trying to get them to support Visual Basic for Windows
>(instead of Linkway Live) for the development of our multimedia software.

Where are you connecting from? I'm a current OIT employee.

>While I have a gut feeling that VizBasic for Windows will let me do still
>graphics just as well, it's using the specialized hardware that's in our
>machines that I'm beginning to wonder about.
>
>So if *anyone* has *any* experience using VizBasic for Windows with
>any of the hardware found in an IBM Ultimedia machine -- namely,
>	* IBM Video Capture Adapter
>	* IBM Audio Capture/Play Adapter
>	* IBM M-Motion
>	* IBM DVI 

It took me over a year of dealing with IBM to conclude that they really
are no longer interested in supporting the M-Motion card. As far as I
know they never did come out with an MCI driver for the card, so that I
could write standard code that would run on this card and others. I've
done substantial work developing a project (in Toolbook) that drives
the M-Motion on a PS/2. 

I don't know what exactly is happening with the DVI card, but it is too
expensive for us to experiment with. I've heard a lot of horror stories.

I wound up having to use IBM's .DLLs for the multimedia development kit
that they sell as a big bundle with hardware. The M-Control Program/2
2.0 was announced to support MCI but as far as I know it hasn't yet.
Our IBM rep is *extremely* poor. It's no wonder IBM is sinking like
a stone.

I am only able to get these .DLLs to work with Windows 3.0, not 3.1,
so for now my application works only under 3.0. We're going to be looking
at non-IBM PCs with MCI solutions from now on, I think.

As far as I know IBM is planning to support the DVI mainly with drivers
for OS/2 2.0 and OS/2 Multimedia Presentation Manager. I don't think that
is out either, although it might be in beta.

Let me know if you've got any specific questions or better information. 
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