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From: Larry Rowe ([email protected])
Subject: Re: You feel alone Kathy
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Date: 1990-11-21 18:23:00 PST

I'm currently working on a shared video database and real-time conferencing testbed. The testbed includes a multimedia workstation, a high-speed local area network, and a high-bandwidth, large capacity storage system. The multimedia workstation includes a conventional high performance Unix workstation (Sparcstation) with a video-window board
(RasterOps), mouse, keyboard, microphone, and speaker I/O devices. The workstation also will have a symmetric video compression board so that real-time video can be captured and displayed in the video-window.
The local area network (Ultranet - 25 MBytes/sec host interface) and storage system will be used to support real-time video conferencing and to store hypermedia applications that can be simultaneously accessed by several workstations. The storage system is a disk array system (RAID) being developed by another group at Berkeley. Their next system will use DAT's to store data (approx. 1 GByte/tape) with a robot to load the tapes into one or more readers (possibly 4 with byte striping for high
bandwidth transfers).

The video compression board is being design and implemented by another student here at Berkeley. And, we're going to use a VME chasis and single board computer to build the network interface controller to the ultranet.

Finally, we have a hypermedia system that we implemented in an
interface toolkit, named Picasso, that we built in Common Lisp and the Common Lisp Object System that runs on X. We've already interfaced a Pioneer Laserdisc to the workstation and developed some applications that display video segments and images stored on the disc. Since the
video we had wasn't stereo, we also built an audio help system for one
of our applications using the other channel that is similar to the help
system on the Next.

We're hoping to be able to display video read from the storage server using the video compression board by the middle of next summer.

If you or someone else is interested in talking to me more about this
project, please send me email or call (415-642-5117).

08-07-2003, 02:26 AM
Mutt Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 34,431	this is a good one. From: Larry Rowe ([email protected]) Subject: Re: You feel alone Kathy View: Complete Thread (2 articles) Original Format Newsgroups: comp.ivideodisc Date: 1990-11-21 18:23:00 PST I'm currently working on a shared video database and real-time conferencing testbed. The testbed includes a multimedia workstation, a high-speed local area network, and a high-bandwidth, large capacity storage system. The multimedia workstation includes a conventional high performance Unix workstation (Sparcstation) with a video-window board (RasterOps), mouse, keyboard, microphone, and speaker I/O devices. The workstation also will have a symmetric video compression board so that real-time video can be captured and displayed in the video-window. The local area network (Ultranet - 25 MBytes/sec host interface) and storage system will be used to support real-time video conferencing and to store hypermedia applications that can be simultaneously accessed by several workstations. The storage system is a disk array system (RAID) being developed by another group at Berkeley. Their next system will use DAT's to store data (approx. 1 GByte/tape) with a robot to load the tapes into one or more readers (possibly 4 with byte striping for high bandwidth transfers). The video compression board is being design and implemented by another student here at Berkeley. And, we're going to use a VME chasis and single board computer to build the network interface controller to the ultranet. Finally, we have a hypermedia system that we implemented in an interface toolkit, named Picasso, that we built in Common Lisp and the Common Lisp Object System that runs on X. We've already interfaced a Pioneer Laserdisc to the workstation and developed some applications that display video segments and images stored on the disc. Since the video we had wasn't stereo, we also built an audio help system for one of our applications using the other channel that is similar to the help system on the Next. We're hoping to be able to display video read from the storage server using the video compression board by the middle of next summer. If you or someone else is interested in talking to me more about this project, please send me email or call (415-642-5117). __________________ I moved my sites to Vacares Hosting. I've saved money, my hair is thicker, lost some weight too! Thanks Sly!