ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG) (01/15/91)
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tmedona@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Terry E. McDonald) (01/15/91)
In article <1991Jan14.162055.16075@d.cs.okstate.edu> ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG) writes: >testing Does anyone know what comp.multmedia stands for? Terre ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ It's hard to see the picture when you're inside of the frame %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Terre tmedona@ircc.ohio-state.edu Cherokee %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% -- *************************************************************** *** LATE LAST NIGHT, TOMMYKNOCKERS CAME KNOCKING AT MY DOOR *** *************************************************************** Terre . . . tmedona@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu . . . ;-)
yorkw@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Willis F York) (01/15/91)
tmedona@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Terry E. McDonald) writes: >Does anyone know what comp.multmedia stands for? MultiMedia is the "latest" buzzword used by the "Major" computer companys. (Because they saw that the AMIGA was so cool, and they wanted on the Bandwagon) (In my opinion) The Definition eems to be a "program" that incorporates all forms of information. (Text,Graphs,pictures,sounds,ect..) and allows a "person" to get to the information easially. A good example is i the "Malls" that have the Booths with touch screens Touch the section/store ya want and see/hear ad's and specials. I've seen stores (grocery) that have "Recipe" booths that show ya foods and give out "recipes". Kinda Neat. --------- Seems to me Multimedia is "writing computer programs for Idiots" ie. If it's not understandable WITHOUT thought it's too complex!. C-ya. -- yorkw@ecn.purdue.edu Willis F York ---------------------------------------------- Macintosh... Proof that a Person can use a Computer all day and still not know ANYTHING about computers.
mcastle@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle (Nexus)) (01/15/91)
In article <1991Jan14.220439.9184@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> tmedona@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Terry E. McDonald) writes: >Does anyone know what comp.multmedia stands for? > >Terre My guess is that it's a mainstream version of alt.binaries.multimedia. If it is, then it's a place to broadcast multimedia binaries (not executables) such as sound files, images, animations, and combinations thereof. -- Mike Castle (Nexus) S087891@UMRVMA.UMR.EDU (preferred) | ERROR: Invalid mcastle@mcs213k.cs.umr.edu (unix mail-YEACH!)| command 'HELP' Life is like a clock: You can work constantly, and be right | try 'HELP' all the time, or not work at all, and be right twice a day. |
bowdidge@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Robert Bowdidge) (01/15/91)
In article <yorkw.663893690@stable.ecn.purdue.edu> yorkw@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Willis F York) writes: >tmedona@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Terry E. McDonald) writes: >>Does anyone know what comp.multmedia stands for? >MultiMedia is the "latest" buzzword used by the "Major" computer companys. >(Because they saw that the AMIGA was so cool, and they wanted on the Bandwagon) (In my opinion) > >The Definition eems to be a "program" that incorporates >all forms of information. (Text,Graphs,pictures,sounds,ect..) >and allows a "person" to get to the information easially. > >A good example is i the "Malls" that have the Booths with touch screens >Touch the section/store ya want and see/hear ad's and specials. > >I've seen stores (grocery) that have "Recipe" booths that show ya >foods and give out "recipes". Kinda Neat. >Seems to me Multimedia is "writing computer programs for Idiots" >ie. If it's not understandable WITHOUT thought it's too complex!. >C-ya. Gag... >Macintosh... Proof that a Person can use a Computer all day and still >not know ANYTHING about computers. Back, back, you geeky Amiga hackers! Get away! Out, out! (Well, we've got to start the flame wars early...) Multimedia can be what you do with your Amiga, but it's probably best defined as integrating something other than text into your computer system. Live video, audio, smell (Smell-o-vision 1.0! coming soon!), and holograms all count as possible media that can be integrated into a computer system. You can approach multimedia from the user side by making computers easier to use by making the interfaces more varied, or by moving jobs traditionally done without a computer into the computer age. Current phone switching systems could be called multimedia in this respect. There's also people looking at using computers for digitally editing film and video. You can also approach the topic from the operating system and hardware side by understanding how high-bandwidth media such as digital video and audio can be sent along computer nets in real time without destroying network throughput for less-time-critical data, and designing real time operating systems that can handle the real time guarantees necessary to handle video at real time rates. Some sample papers from academia (with a bias towards operating system support for Multimedia) might be: [Ander89] David Anderson and Robert Wahbe "A Framework for Multimedia Communication in a General-Purpose Distributed System", U.C. Berkeley Technical Report UCB/CSD 89/498, March 31, 1989 Deals mainly with their protocols for multimedia systems which keeps track of the attributes (speed, reliability, security) so that the media only gets the amount of overhead it needs when being sent across the network.. [Arons89] B. Arons, C. Binding, K. Lantz, and C. Schmandt, "The VOX Audio Server", Multimedia '89: 2nd IEEE COMSOC International Multimedia Communications Workshop, Ottowa, Ontario, April 20-23 1989 Creates an audio server model that can run on every processor and control sound objects on that machine -- analogous to X Windows treatment of windows. Makes software and hardware objects for operating on the voice data by creating "LAUDs" -- logical audio devices -- which could be connected together into Complex LAUDs. To create an applicationk, you specify how the building blocks go together. Sound data was stored on each client machine with procedures for migrating sounds over the network. [Binding89] C. Binding, C. Schmandt, K. Lantz and B. Arons, "Workstation Audio and Window-Based Graphics: Similarities and Differences", Technical Report, Olivetti Research Center, January 31, 1989 Discusses an audio server that controls sound objects how a windowing system controls the screen. UsesVOXes. [Calnan87] Roger Calnan, "ISLAND: A Distributed Multimedia System", Globecom Tokyo, 1987 Tokyo, Japan (IEEE Communications Society) 19.7.1 - 19.7.5 Similar to Etherphone. [Forsdick85] H. Forsdick, "Explorations into Real Time Multimedia Conferencing", Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Computer Message Systems, pp. 299-315, IFIP, September 1985 Extensions to Diamond to support conferencing. [Forsdick et. al.84] "Initial Experience with Multimedia Documents in Diamond" Proc. IFIP WG 6.5 Working Conference on Computer Based Message Services, Nottingham England 1-4May, 1984 User interface side of Diamond. [Lantz89] K. Lantz, Collaboration Technology Research at Olivetti Research Center, Olivetti Research Center, 1989 [Leung88] W.H.Leung et.al. "A Set of Operating Systems Mechanisms to support Multi-media Applications", 1988 International Zurich Seminar on Digital Communicationso Connectors to link audio devices (hardware, software) virtual circuits [Ludwig87a] L. Ludwig and D. Dunn, "Laboratory for Emulation and Study of Integrated and Coordinated Media Communication", Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM '87, Stowe, VT, August 1987, 283-291 [Ludwig87b] L. Ludwig, "A Threaded/Flow Approach to Reconfigurable Distributed Systems and Service Primitives Architectures", Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM '87, Stowe, Vt. August 1987 pp. 306-316 Discusses the "Service Primitives" mentioned in [Ludwig87a]. The scheme is presented with little detail "due to legal and proprietary issues yet to be resolved." [Ludwig87b] [Naffah86] Najah Naffah and Ahmed Karmouch, "Agora -- An Experiment in Multimedia Message Systems", IEEE Computer, May 1986, pp. 56- Similar to Muse paper [Sun89] "Multimedia File System Overview", Sun Microsystems, August 1989 Sun built extensions on top of the Unix filesystem to allow information about the file (description of contents, type of encoding, recording date) in a place apart from the main data. Extensions allow application to work with typed data without actually having to worry about what type of data it is (encoding, compression format, etc.) [Sventek87] J.S. Sventek, "An Architecture supporting Multi-media Integration", IEEE Computer Society Office Automation Symposium, Gaithersburg, MD, 27-29 April 1987, pp 46-56 Introduces idea of connectors, similar to service primitives [Ludwig] and Olivetti's CLAUDs. [Terry88] D. Terry and D. Swinehart, "Managing Stored Voice in the Etherphone System", ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 6:1, February 1988 pp. 3-27 Partially integrated systeme for voice communication and storage. Connection is managed by the workstation, but voice data travels over the internet directly to the "Etherphone" where it would be decoded and played back. The system was integrated on a group of heterogeneous machines; all voice based processing was done by sending commands to the Voice Server, the machine responsible for storing and manipulating voice objects. [Thomas85] R. Thomas, H. Forsdick, T. Crowley, R. Schaaf, R. Tomlinson, V. Travers, "Diamond: A Multimedia Message System Built on a Distributed Architecture", IEEE Computer, December 1985, 65-78 Diamond is a multimedia electronic mail project. Voice, graphics, and text are allowed in the message. Single document store -- sound data is stored separately from other data. Hope this helps all of you out there who are interested in Multimedia get your reading lists started! -- Robert Bowdidge bowdidge@cs.ucsd.edu
velasco@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Gabriel Velasco) (01/15/91)
tmedona@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Terry E. McDonald) writes: >Does anyone know what comp.multmedia stands for? Is this a real question? -- ________________________________________________ <>___, / / | ... and he called out and said, "Gabriel, give | /___/ __ / _ __ ' _ / | this man an understanding of the vision." | /\__/\(_/\/__)\/ (_/_(/_/|_ |_______________________________________Dan_8:16_|
velasco@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Gabriel Velasco) (01/15/91)
yorkw@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Willis F York) writes: >MultiMedia is the "latest" buzzword used by the "Major" computer companys. >The Definition eems to be a "program" that incorporates >all forms of information. (Text,Graphs,pictures,sounds,ect..) >and allows a "person" to get to the information easially. >Seems to me Multimedia is "writing computer programs for Idiots" >ie. If it's not understandable WITHOUT thought it's too complex!. You are definitely missing the whole picture. Multimedia is a paradigm. In computers and communications, media can be differentiated by their performance, storage, and service requirements among other things. A multimedia system is one that can adequately handle multiple streams of data with differing performance requirements. This is not a trivial task. Often the performance requirements of one medium are in direct opposition to the performance requirements of another medium. There are also problems of inter-media synchronization and all of the problems associated with real-time systems. Most multimedia systems are real-time since they usually incorporate audio and video. One obvious use for a multimedia system would be an audio-video conference call between executives in a very large corporation. I would not call this a program for idiots. Would you recommend that they use a multiperson version of talk or a conference call. One goal of multimedia research is to replace the TV, telephone, newspaper, magazine, computer, security system, lighting control, etc. with a single multimedia terminal that can do all of the information processing jobs. Solutions to multimedia problems will also be instrumental in bringing virtual reality systems to fruition. -- ________________________________________________ <>___, / / | ... and he called out and said, "Gabriel, give | /___/ __ / _ __ ' _ / | this man an understanding of the vision." | /\__/\(_/\/__)\/ (_/_(/_/|_ |_______________________________________Dan_8:16_|
ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG) (01/15/91)
From article <1991Jan14.220439.9184@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu>, by tmedona@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Terry E. McDonald):
> Does anyone know what comp.multmedia stands for?
Multimedia refers to the used of additional extra media like
sound card (like Sound Blaster), video laser disk (even though the
data from the laser disk does not go thru the computer, the disk
is controlled by the computer so that any scene from the disk can
be sent to a regular TV screen any time the computer feels like
it), etc, in a computer program for presentation purpose. The
only sure thing I know is that Mr Gates is going to get another
billion out of us!clear@cavebbs.gen.nz (Charlie Lear) (01/16/91)
In article <1991Jan14.220439.9184@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> tmedona@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Terry E. McDonald) writes: >Does anyone know what comp.multmedia stands for? Yes. Computers.multimedia. Please test post to misc.test, alt.test or gnu.test. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charlie "The Bear" Lear | clear@cavebbs.gen.nz | Kawasaki Z750GT DoD#0221 The Cave MegaBBS +64 4 643429 V32 | PO Box 2009, Wellington, New Zealand --------------------------------------------------------------------------
rgoldstone@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU (Robin Goldstone) (01/17/91)
In article <15616@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> bowdidge@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Robert Bowdidge) writes: >Multimedia can be what you do with your Amiga, but it's probably best defined >as integrating something other than text into your computer system. Live >video, audio, smell (Smell-o-vision 1.0! coming soon!), and holograms all count >as possible media that can be integrated into a computer system. Smell? Hmm... Person 1: "Hey, what's that smell?" Person 2: "Oh no! My computer is on fire!" Person 1: "Great - now we have multimedia!" *********************************************************************** Robin Goldstone, California State University, Chico Computing Services rgoldstone@oavax.csuchico.edu
d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) (01/17/91)
In article <> yorkw@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Willis F York) writes: >Seems to me Multimedia is "writing computer programs for Idiots" >ie. If it's not understandable WITHOUT thought it's too complex!. MultiMedia is more than computerized info systems. This is called "hypertext". MultiMedia includes - that's right, multiple media. Like, sound and pictures and video disc and printouts at the same time. lots of nifty hardware there. MultiMedia is a better way of okpresenting unstructured information than producing a glossy brochure or video tape. My opinion is that the best multi-media engine available is a mac with a 24bit monitor running HyperCard 2.0 - unbeatable ! h+ -- Jon W{tte, Stockholm, Sweden, h+@nada.kth.se