anderer@vax1.acs.udel.edu (David G Anderer) (01/21/89)
A question that's come accross my desk: One of our users wants to use a Sun with a video disc player (or some other type of video input). The Sun will control the player and display images (or full-motion video) on the screen in a window with computer-generated text overlayed. An alternative is to hook a monitor to the video disc player and pipe the Sun text as an overlay for display there. Possible? What hardware do we need for this? Thanks.
krempel@gamera.cns.syr.edu (Henry B.J. Krempel) (01/31/89)
>One of our users wants to use a Sun with a video disc player (or some >other type of video input). The Sun will control the player and display >images (or full-motion video) on the screen in a window with >computer-generated text overlayed. To do this in a windowing environment, Parallax sells a video board that presents full motiuon video in a NeWS environment. The Video is a first-class NeWS object, and can be mixed with arbitrary poeces of PostScript (which incledes, of course, text, windows and graphics). The board set occupies 4 physical slots, so you will need a 160 or a 260 model (a 110 with a VME bus extender also works). It costs around $10K. I don't have the phone number handy, but one email address I have is: parallax!taylor@sun.com (internet) sun!parallax!taylor (uunet, I think) The software for this system (Pnews) includes code to control a video disk. If you don't have the money for the parallax solution, you might be able to set up something with a separate video monitor. Controlling the disk wouldn't be too hard, a number of them come with serial line interfaces, and you might be able to hook up some sort of video character generator.
shn@think.com (02/02/89)
In regards to David G Anderer <anderer@vax1.acs.udel.edu> question about
live video in a window.
I noticed that Parallax Graphics has hardware and software which will
allow you to do just that using X V11R3. Take video info and put it into
a window. I dont know if they also have the software and hardware to
interface to the video player.
Sam Nuwayser - Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge, MA +1 617-876-1111
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