lipman@dtrc.dt.navy.mil (Lipman) (05/28/91)
I'd like some opinions and suggestions as to whether the following scenario is possible. A friend has an interactive PC program where the user accesses info thru a menu driven touch-screen based system. All that works fine. Now, he wants to add video. The user would pick a certain item and then 30-seconds of video would play. There would be lots of 30-second clips available to the user to view. A possible solution is to store the 30-second video clips on a cd-rom and then have the pc program access those clips and play them back. Is this possible? What type of pc interfaces are required for the video? Is a different monitor required? Any particular type of cd-rom player? Can video easily be recorded to a cd-rom? What type of hardware is needed to record the cd with video? Is it do-it-yourself or do you send it out to get done? Would playing the video back from a vcr make more sense? What about access time? As you can see I don't really have any idea about this, neither does my friend, so any and all suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, e-mail only please, Bob Lipman