mfidelma@bbn.com (Miles Fidelman) (04/18/88)
I recently acquired a copy of a hypercard stack for driving videodisk players. Unfortunately one of the XCMD resources is apparantly missing, the one I need! The XCMD contains a driver for a Sony 1500 videodisk player. If anyone out there has a copy, would you BinHex it and email it to me. If anyone has a driver specifically for a Sony 1000A player, that would be even better. Thanks very much, Miles Fidelman mfidelman@bbn.com
KJELD%MCOPN1@eg.csc.ti.com (04/27/88)
> I recently acquired a copy of a hypercard stack for driving videodisk > players. Unfortunately one of the XCMD resources is apparantly missing, the > one I need! The XCMD contains a driver for a Sony 1500 videodisk player. > If anyone out there has a copy, would you BinHex it and email it to me. If > anyone has a driver specifically for a Sony 1000A player, that would be > even better. When we did the presentation system for the DoI we found the same problem. Apple in D.C. and in Dallas had the video stack, but the Sony drivers were conspicuously missing from both. As a solution, you might want to look at the HyperTerm stack which contains generic drivers for the serial ports. Then write scripts that act as a shell around these XCMDs and XFCNs. You can have more flexibility here since you can fake playing a long segment by sending a "play" command, and monitoring progress via. an Idle handler. This way the player won't be locked into playing a sequence, and can be interrupted at any time. Also it returns control to HyperCard before the video sequence is complete. I can be reached at: Kurt Christensen Apeiron P.O. Box 1000, M/S 220 McKinney, TX 75069
ns@CAT.CMU.EDU (Nicholas Spies) (04/28/88)
The Sony 1500 videodisc driver is faulty, or at least does not correspond very well with the Sony 1000A and 2000 commands. I rewrote it so it basically works and could provide it either in MPW Pascal source form and/or as a compiled resource. Send mail if interested. BTW, the way to play a video segment without polling to find end is to repeat from current position to end frame _once_ on Sony players. Pioneer players have an explicit command to "play til..." -- Nicholas Spies ns@cat.cmu.edu.arpa Center for Design of Educational Computing Carnegie Mellon University