Subject: MPEG-FAQ: multimedia compression [8/8]
Date: 9 Jun 1995 11:05:06 GMT
Summary: This is the summary about the ISO video and audioformats MPEG 1, 2 and 4
answers:9857 comp.answers:12390 news.answers:45910

Version: v 4.0 95/06/07
Posting-Frequency: bimonthly
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                      looking for Mosaic, the famous WWW graphical
                      browser
                    * Jim Howard's alt.binaries.pictures FAQ -- Info
                      on how to decode pictures, posting, and much
                      more
                    * MPEG information:  Links to Frank Gadegast's
                      MPEG faq and MPEG homepage; The WWW Graphics 
                      Page's very own MPEG faq; The MPEG Standards
                      Homepage (info on MPEG standards, site for
                      MPEG movies, and more); and an MPEG movie 
                      archive
                    * A link to the massive Usenet FAQ pages at
                      Ohio State, an outstanding resource
                    * A link to Thomas Boutell's fantastic WWW faq!
                      In living WWW format!  (Also availble via FTP
                      from the WWW Graphics Page as a ZIPped Ascii file) 
                      Info on WWW browsers for all platforms (even Unix
                      dial-up), writing HTML documents, and more!
                      A  M U S T  R E A D  F O R  E V E R Y O N E 
                      
                 -- Internet Service FAQ pages
 
                    * The Internet Services FAQ
                    * FSP (alternative to FTP) FAQ
                    * Internet Gopher FAQ
 
                 -- Miscellaneous FAQs (selection subject to change)
 
                    * Howard Stern
                    * Unix X-Windows on Intel Architecture
                    * The MS-DOS Archives
                    * Playboy Enterprises (required reading!)
                    * The alt.supermodels FAQ!  Read on for juicy
                      info on your favourite supermodels.. 
                                                             
 
  o Computer Support Areas -- Where to obtain programs of a graphical
                              nature for your architecture
                  
                    * Macintosh -- MPEG players, contact sheet 
                      makers, dl/gl/fli viewers, etc.
                    * IBM PC -- MPEG players, JPEG viewers,
                      a link to the Xing Technology FTP site,
                      and official QPEG support site for
                      North America (including the latest version
                      of QPEG, along with a link to Oliver Fromme's
                      homepage in Germany)                      
                      NOW DIVIDED INTO COGENT areas:  JPEG/GIF viewers,
                      MPEG viewers, contact sheet makers, AVI viewers,
                      and probably a few other juicy tidbits.
                    * Unix/X-Window -- MPEG source, movies; 
                      information on XAnim, a wonderful graphics
                      program by Mark Podlipec
 ..    * The QuickTime Support Link.  A pointer to
 .              Robert A. Lentz's exquisite QuickTime information
 ..      page, with info on flattening quicktimes and programs
 ..      and utils for Macintosh, X Window, and Microsoft
 ..      Windows.  A MUST see!!
                    * Archie link added!  Just click and voila, you
   .              have access to Archie.  (Some browsers may
  ..      require an external telnet application;
  ..      consult your documentation.)
                    * Winsock support area.  Link to the Winsock
                      Application FAQ.  In addition, the WWW Graphics
                      Page is now the official distribution site
                      in the USA for EWAN, the fantastic freeware telnet
                      program for Winsock!

  o The Tennis Center -- Information on my favorite game, tennis.
                         (I realize this is tangential, but.. so 
                         what!)   
 
                    * The rec.sport.tennis FAQ
                    * The Tennis Homepage (In Canada, with
                      links to another tennis homepage)
                 !! * A cute picture of Barbi Benton and Hugh
                      Hefner posting with their tennis racquets
                      at a tennis court
                 !! * Fascinating photos of Andre Agassi's new haircut
 
  o Favorite Links -- Other sites you should try, and IMMEDIATELY!
 
                    * The Yahoo Sever - a great link, equipped
..      with an easy-to-use subject search index
 ..      for easy access to other links!  Find what
..      you want quickly and easily.
                    * The Multimedia Maddman's hOmeY page -- Graphics
..      Info and more!  Just try it! 
                    * Michel Buffa's Video Games Page (3DO, Atari
                      Jaguar, SNES, Sega, Gameboy, etc..)
                    * The UnOfficial Nine Inch Nails Homepage
                    * The Beastie Boys Homepage
                    * The Llama Mailserver (MPEG resource and more!)
                    * The alt.sex.movies Homepage
                    * The CDnow!  homepage -- ordering CDs via WWW
           .    * The Playboy Enterprises, Inc. homepage -- now
                      you can explore Playboy's catalog via WWW! 
 
                    * A section on graphics links.. including the
       .  .      very nice IAMfree area, your local WWW Art
                      Gallery!  

The material is presented in a refreshing format, just for YOU!  If 
you do not want this site to die, your feedback must be submitted via
email.  Do not let it go to waste!  The vitality of this site is up to
you alone..
 
The WWW Graphics Page.. your online WWW resource for Graphics 
Utilities!
 
Try it today!  URL=http://www.best.com/~bryanw/

-- 
    Bryan Woodworth (bryanw@best.com)  Try The WWW Graphics Page today!
                     URL: http://www.best.com/~bryanw
      Need a WWW browser?  FTP to ftp.best.com:/pub/bryanw/wwwfaq.zip
        Info on WWW browsers for all platforms -- even Unix dial-up

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~Subject: Rock'n'Roll stored in MPEG on the Web ?

IUMA (The Internet Underground Music Archive) and Rolling Stone
contributing editor/Wired contributing writer Michael Goldberg are
proud to announce a new rock & roll magazine exclusively available
on the Internet via WWW.

Please join us at http://www.addict.com/ATN/

We'd love it if you would add this new site to any appropriate
"What's New" listings.

Any questions or feedback may be addressed to atn@addict.com.

PS: Look for press about ATN's launch in the following (traditional print)
    papers:
.San Francisco Chronicle: Fri, Dec 2nd
.San Francisco Examiner: Fri, Dec 2nd
.LA Times (Calendar Section): Sun, Dec 4th

....and possibly a mention in the Washington Post...

-- 
Jon Luini (falcon@iuma.com) & Michael Goldberg (insider@addict.com).

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~Subject: Where can I find space movies coded in MPEG ?

From: rousself@univ-rennes1.fr ( Frank ROUSSEL )
Date: 21 Mar 1994 21:39:52 GMT
Organization: CRI/CICB Universite' de Rennes 1 - FR

I'm proud to announce you that a Space Movie Archive
has been opened at the CRI-CICB of Rennes.
It consists of about 90 anims, the biggest archive i know.

English URL=http://www.univ-rennes1.fr/ASTRO/anim-e.html
French  URL=http://www.univ-rennes1.fr/ASTRO/anim-f.html

Some new clickable cards (mainly on planets & shuttles)
have been added to the astronomy page (images, animations)
English URL=http://www.univ-rennes1.fr/ASTRO/astro.english.html
French  URL=http://www.univ-rennes1.fr/ASTRO/astro.french.html

NOTE: You can also accede via ftp.univ-rennes1.fr:/pub/Images/ASTRO,
                       or via gopher.univ-rennes1.fr:/Astro Gopher

The IP address is 129.20.254.1 for all.

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~Subject: Movies on Web-site

From: paula@sgizenger5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Andreas Paul)
Subject: 'Blade Runner' and 'The Wall'-MPEG-animations on WWW
Date: 28 Jul 1994 20:58:35 GMT

I have put a few MPEG-Movies onto our WWW-Site.

There are clips from 'Pink Floyd: The Wall' and (of course ;) 'Blade Runner'.

Soon to follow: 'Highlander', 'Dr. Strangelove' ...

(one of those files would have created a 79-parted posting (1000 lines each),
 so forgive for not posting the actual file ;)

In case you are interested here's the URL:

URL=http://wwwzenger.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/persons/paula/mpeg/index.html


.Enjoy, Andreas Paul

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~Subject: Where can I find fractal movies coded in MPEG ?

From: rousself@univ-rennes1.fr ( Frank ROUSSEL )
Date: 21 Mar 1994 21:39:27 GMT
Organization: CRI/CICB Universite' de Rennes 1 - FR

I'm proud to announce you that a Fractal Movie Archive
has been opened at the CNAM of Paris.
URL=http://www.cnam.fr/fractals/anim.html

You may also have a look at the Fractal Art Gallery too.
URL=http://www.cnam.fr/fractals.html

NOTE: You can also accede via

URL=ftp://ftp.cnam.fr/pub/Fractals/

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~Subject: Is qt2mpeg on the Web ?

I put the information concerning the conversion of QuickTime to
MPEG on the WWW. The code and a short explanation can be found
at http://www.cs.vu.nl/~cvrij/ my homepage </a>
under the 'current project' listing. (The Conversion Project)
This should work for most people, if you have any problems with it, let
me know.
I didn't incorporate the AVI to MPEG conversion yet, although it's
fairly trivial, since it's basically the same as QuickTime to MPEG.
(I haven't been able to test anything yet, that's why)

(oh, it's kind'a big to post, and since there's probably something
I overlooked, I'll keep it on the Web for now.)

Casey Ryder
-- 
Cees van Rij/ Casey Ryder       ++312503-16844 CET
http://www.cs.vu.nl/users/students/cvrij/home.html

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~Subject: What are other good URL's ?

Documents:
  URL=http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/mpegfaq/
      (MPEG-FAQ online version)
  URL=http://www.crs4.it/~luigi/MPEG/
      (HTML-formatted MPEG-Infos)
  URL=http://atsc.org/
      (HDTV/MPEG2 documents)

Utilities:
  URL=http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~phade
      (PHADE's home-page and MPEG archive)
  URL=http://www.b-2.de.contrib.net/mpegarts/
      (MPEG-Arts, various MPEG-utils)
  URL=http://www.ziff.com:8009/~cshopper/features/9504/hw2_0495/
      (MPEG Mania - good description of available hardware MPEG cards)
  URL=http://xingtech.com/
      (Xing Technology)
  URL=http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/christ/help/xmg.html

Movies:
  URL=http://w3.eeb.ele.tue.nl/mpeg/index.html
      (MPEG Movie Archive)
  URL=http://www.kyushu-id.ac.jp/kid/free/RYOUTEI/MPEG/tsuzuki02.html
      (Video & 8mm FILM)

Music:
  URL=http://www.iuma.com/
      (IUMA - Internet Underground Music Archive)
  URL=http://http://kspace.com
      (Music clips)
  URL=http://www.io.org/~cme
      (MPEG utils and some cool bands)
  URL=http://pcd.stanford.edu/umbra/Towhead/Towhead.html
      (Towhead)
  URL=http://server.music.vt.edu
      (Virginia Tech Music Department)
  URL=http://www.csos.orst.edu/rfr/va/arcana.html
      (Violet Arcana)

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~Subject: SECTION 8. - MAIL ORDER

That's about what you can get via mail.

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~Subject: The Internet MPEG CD-Rom

        PHADE SOFTWARE        and   Hartmann Multimedia Service
        Inh. Frank Gadegast         Dipl. Ing. Stefan Hartmann

                            present

        =======================================================
               The Internet MPEG CD-Rom    Version 1.0
                      Saturday  APRIL  15th  1995
        =======================================================

* Get yourself the latest MPEG Video and MPEG Audio software tools !
  ( e.g. includes VMPEG 1.2b for Win3.x MPEG Video software player)

* Listen to over 150 songs from the Internet Underground Music Archive (IUMA)!
  (without having to download a single one ! incl. XingSound MPEG Audio player)

* Browse the Internet Offline and click yourself through over 200 MPEG movies !
  (you don't need to be online, everything is just a click away !)

* Learn, how to use the World Wide Web , Offline !

* Try the Demo of this CD-Rom  _ONLINE_  at:

.http://www.b-2.de.contrib.net/harti/mpegcd.html



The "Internet MPEG CD-Rom" is a rather unique collection of Multimedia-
Data stored in a compression-format called MPEG. It includes 600 MB
of digital movies, sounds, songs and all utilities for composing,
encoding and decoding, playing and rearranging this multimedia material.

The "Internet MPEG CD-Rom" is especially compiled for those, who want
to follow the digital multimedia revolution or who want to develop
MPEG-utilities or create MPEG-compressed sounds or movies.

The "Internet MPEG CD-Rom" is NOW available as an ISO-9660 conform CD-Rom disc!
Readable on DOS, Windows, Windows-NT, OS/2, Ultrix, Unix, MACs, etc ....

Installation programs and all needed viewers are included for
Windows, Linux, SunOS and Solaris ...

"The Internet MPEG CD-Rom"
includes the FAQs and MPEG utility programs, source-code, movies and
information-files. Just everything about MPEG-I and now even MPEG-II.

The CD-Rom includes (in addition to the versions which are stored on the
ftp-Servers out there) all the versions of the programs and source-code,
additional movies (including the audio-files) and lots of additional
informations.

Additional to any ftp-servers it contains special things, you can't find
anywhere but here. Like a DOS-port of the Berkeley-MPEG-Encoder, other
DOS-ports, a security-filter for MPEG-I-video- and -audiostreams called
secmpeg and secmpaudio, some selfmade movies, new versions and utilities that
were specially made for THIS CD-Rom and that you will never find on other
media...


                   Try and USE the Internet OFFLINE !!!

To make the "Internet MPEG CD-Rom" interactive, one big hypertext-
document explains and displays the whole contents of the archive,
giving the user a powerful tool, called Cello, to browse through
Megabytes of documentaton and to interactevly select and play hours
and hours of music and movies.

The whole archive itself is organized as one big hypertext-document.
It includes a complete Wide-World-Web (WWW) document, the tools to
use this document on Windows-, Windows-NT-, Linux-, SunOS- and Solaris-
machines are included, most UNIX-hosts can include "The Internet MPEG CD-Rom"
into their hyptertext-services with a single link !!!


You can find a few of all these WWW-documents as an example under the
adress:

.http://www.b-2.de.contrib.net/harti/mpegcd.html

"The Internet MPEG CD-Rom" contains at least the following sections:

     24,888,655 E:\AUDIO\MUSIC      20,583,631 E:\NVR
     49,339,823 E:\AUDIO            12,108,204 E:\PHADESW
     10,103,748 E:\BIN               3,000,035 E:\UTIL\AMIGA
        640,532 E:\DEMO                152,576 E:\UTIL\DEC
     11,618,223 E:\DOC              20,073,867 E:\UTIL\DOS
      3,157,665 E:\FAQ                 338,116 E:\UTIL\IRIX
    189,569,667 E:\IUMA\MUSIC        5,390,454 E:\UTIL\MAC
    191,150,646 E:\IUMA              1,802,240 E:\UTIL\NEXT
     15,102,123 E:\MOVIES\IFRAME     2,152,491 E:\UTIL\OS2
     99,083,167 E:\MOVIES\IPBFRAME   5,944,282 E:\UTIL\SPARC
    114,185,290 E:\MOVIES           30,885,363 E:\UTIL\UNIX
     52,781,148 E:\MPEG1             3,060,754 E:\UTIL\WINDOWNT
        250,441 E:\MPEG2             4,042,098 E:\UTIL\WINDOWS
     37,465,169 E:\NFM\MUSIC        76,842,276 E:\UTIL
     37,537,740 E:\NFM              23,231,772 E:\VIDEOS
      3,232,740 E:\WWW

        Total = 607,537,581 bytes

Please be sure, to get always the most-up-to-date description
of "The Internet MPEG CD-Rom" before requesting it ! EMail to:
harti@b-2.de.contrib.net

or try to find the latest MPEGFAQ (current Version 3.2).
Look at the date of this info file, something older than 6 months
can't be up-to-date !


           Be faster than the Internet and order now !!!

Ordering can be done now immediately via email or via letter.

To obtain "The Internet MPEG CD-Rom" you have the following choices:

o  fill the ORDER.FRM and send it via e-mail or fax it to Hartmann
   Multimedia Service (if paying with VISA-card only !)

o  fill the ORDER.FRM and send it via letter to Hartmann Multimedia
   Service (only VISA-card and EC-cheques (German Marks only) accepted !)

o  order it in your book store via:

       ISBN-number: 3-930736-40-3
       Title      : The Internet MPEG CD-Rom Version 1.0
       Publisher  : Hartmann Multimedia Service
       Author     : PHADE Software, Inh. Frank Gadegast

o  try our WWW-server and get the latest info via
   URL=http://www.b-2.de.contrib.net/harti/harti.html

o  you can order at your local computer or CD-Rom shop
   (try to convince your local dealer to order from Hartmann Multimedia Service)



      ORDER-FORM for "The Internet MPEG CD-Rom" [Version 1.0]
                     Tuesday March  28th  1995
      =======================================================

Please fill out this form carefully to order "The Internet MPEG CD-Rom"
Version 1.0. Then send it via letter to:

  Hartmann Multimedia Service
  Dipl.-Ing. Stefan Hartmann
  Keplerstr. 11 B
  10589 Berlin, GERMANY

  Fon    : ++ 49 30 344 23 66
  Fax    : ++ 49 30 344 92 79

  E-Mail : harti@b-2.de.contrib.net
  FTP    : ftp.b-2.de.contrib.net    in pub/harti
  WEB    : http://www.b-2.de.contrib.net/harti/harti.html

The price of the MPEG-CD-Rom is DM 49.90, plus

  o  DM 10 for shipping inside Germany
  o  DM 15 for shipping inside Europe
  o  DM 28 for shipping outside Europe.

The German price already includes 15 % VAT. All other prices are without VAT.

So the total prices inclusive shipping and handling will be:

Germany:  .59.90 DM
Europe:   .64.90 DM
International:.77.90 DM

Shipping will be done via airmail, so you have the fastest delivery !

So, e.g. if you order one CD-Rom disc from inside Europe and pay
via EC-cheque, fill the EC-cheque with DM 64,90.

(Only for Germans:
Innerhalb Deutschland, setzen Sie bitte den Betrag von DM 59.90 in
Ihren Euro- oder Verrechnungs-Scheck ein.)


Feel free to ask for our special price list for distributors,
contributors or for special prices for bundling with other hard- and software.

If you order several CD-Rom's, you only have to add the
shipping fees once !

Exchange rate today is about : 1 US$ = 1.40 DM,
but please fill out all cheques in German Deutsch Marks (DM) only !!!


By signing the order you agree to the following terms:

The use of "The Internet MPEG CD-Rom Version 1.0" is limited to one
local area network or one single computer.

The re-use of parts of this CD-Rom disc or the whole CD-Rom without
the written permission of PHADE Software and Hartmann Multimedia Service
is strictly prohibited.
Especially BBS systems, Mailboxes, Networks on the Internet, ftp- or HTTP-
server or Online-Services like CompuServe(R) do NOT have the permission
to re-use the contents of this CD-Rom for the benefit of their users.
Please ask PHADE Software for that permission and Hartmann Multimedia Service
for the conditions !

Some single programs, tools, documentation files or streams can be
copied and used for whatever purpose, according to the limitations
from the original authors, because they are Shareware or freeware.

It is strictly prohibited to use the

o installation files (like INSTALL.EXE, INSTALL.HLP, the install-scripts)

o utilities copyrighted by PHADE Software (like DBMP.EXE, BROWSER.EXE,
  WINEXE.EXE), the CD-Rom documentation files

o HTML-pages and their pictures

o sound-, pictures-, text- and other files belonging into the audio-
  archives "IUMA", "NFM" or "BerlinBands"

o all MPEG-streams that are not already available in the Internet, like
  most of the MPEG-1-systemstreams, other streams and the Intro,
  consisting of MPEGCD.M1V, MPEGCD.MPG, MPEGCD.MP2 and MPEGCD.WAV

for another purpose than in conjuction with using this CD-Rom disc. A copy of
those files for a different purpose is strictly prohibited and protected
by German Law.

The music of the Intro is copyrighted by Stefan Hartmann, Hartmann
Multimedia Service, Berlin and should not be copied either.

PHADE Software claims the compilation copyright. Other projects should
not benefit from copying the structure, methods or utility-combinations
developed, tested and used for this CD-Rom disc.


And now for our German customers:

Die Internet MPEG CD-Rom ist eine einzigartige Kollektion von MPEG- Audio-
und Video-Daten. Sie enthlt ca. 600 MB digitale MPEG-Filme, MPEG-Songs
(inclusive Internet Underground Music Archiv) und alle Utilities und Infos,
die gebraucht werden, um das Material rein per Software abzuspielen, zu
schneiden, zu variieren und zu erzeugen.

Die CD ist eine ISO9660 CD-Rom und kann auf DOS/Windows-, allen UNIX-Systemen
und MACs gelesen werden. Sie enthlt  MPEG-Tools und Utilities f.r diese
Platformen. Alle Utilities sind Shareware oder Public Domain.

Die Internet MPEG CD-Rom wurde als interaktives HTML-Hypertext-Dokument
organisiert, so da Sie sich  mit einem WWW-Viewer durch das Archiv klicken
knnen, ohne dabei den berblick zu verlieren.
So knnen Sie sich interaktiv per Mausklick durch .ber 150 MPEG-Songs von
40 Bands und durch .ber 200 MPEG-Filme bewegen !

Unter Windows wird der CELLO-WWW-Viewer installiert, mit dem Sie OFFLINE
durch das Internet "surfen" knnen.
(alle  WWW-Seiten auch unter Unix und auf MACs abrufbar !)

Lernen Sie, wie das Internet funktioniert, OFFLINE von der CD ! Sie brauchen
keine Modem-Verbindung zum Netz ! Keine langen Download-Wartezeiten mehr !
Alles ist nur einen Klick entfernt !
Erleben Sie die Welt der neusten multimedialen Kompressionstechniken, die
Ihnen Stunde f.r Stunde Musik und Filme bringt !
Ein Klick und Sie hren via Realtime-Software-MPEG-Audio-Player die Bands in
CD-Qualitt ! Noch ein Klick und Sie sehen die MPEG-Filme rein per
Software-Playback ! Keine MPEG-Hardware erforderlich ! Seien Sie schneller als
das Internet, holen Sie sich diese CD-Rom:

The Internet MPEG-CD-Rom !


====================== cut here and mail or email this part only ! ==========



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           =============       ======================================
             (date)                     ^-- sign here

====================== cut here  cut here  cut here =======================

--
Hartmann Multimedia Service
Dipl. Ing. Stefan Hartmann
Keplerstr. 11 B, 10589 Berlin, Germany
Tel: ++ 49 30 344 23 66   FAX: ++ 49 30 344 92 79
email: harti@contrib.de     harti@b-2.de.contrib.net
Web access: http://www.b-2.de.contrib.net/harti/harti.html

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~Subject: Conversion, WWW and CD-Rom production service

1) PHADE Software is offering a video-conversion-service !

A conversion of 1 MB video (GL,DL,MPEG,AVI,DIB-seq, e.g.)
to one or the other format cost currently 30DM (20$).
Over 10 MB gets then really cheap only 15DM (10$).
Audio conversion is possible too (AVI, WAV, AU) and costs
the half of the video-price (but is included if there is
  video-conversion).

2) PHADE Software is offering WWW-server design

Beeing expirienced with right now to CD-Rom WWW-productions
and the configuration, design and programming of several
HTTP-server PHADE Software can offer a complete implementation
of HTTP-server.

3) PHADE Software is offering CD-Rom productions

Having two own CD-Rom selling successfully in the market
and having programmed and designed several others, PHADE
Software can offer quick, high-quality interfaces to
CD-Roms. Multimedia extensions included, several platforms
supported.


Please send any jobs or commercial mail to

    phade@contrib.de

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~Subject: How can I order information from C-CUBE ?

Announcing C-Cube product information request via E-Mail

All requests for general C-Cube product literature should be forwarded to:

    literature@c-cube.com

Requests for specific JPEG or MPEG product information should be forwarded to:

    jpeg@c-cube.com
    mpeg@c-cube.com

Please include your complete name, address, phone and fax numbers in your
request. Thank you. C-Cube Microsystems


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~Subject: SECTION 9. - ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Here you find hints about how to find other documents, or questions
and their answers that are not having their own section so far !

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~Subject: What are the MPEG standard documents ?

From: billd@cray.com (Bill Davidson)
Date: 21 Apr 94 02:16:32 MET

I just connected to the Document Center WAIS server at wais.service.com
to find out what MPEG documents cost.  This is what I found:

Title.......Pages.Price(US$)

ISO/IEC-11172-1 - PART 1: SYSTEMS, INFORMATION..60.158.75
.TECHNOLOGY - CODING OF MOVING PICTURES &
.ASSOCIATED AUDIO FOR

ISO/IEC-11172-2 - PART 2: VIDEO, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.122.204.00
.- CODING MOVING PICTURES & ASSOCIATED AUDIO FOR
.DIGI

ISO/IEC-11172-3 - PART 3: AUDIO, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.157.214.25
.- CODING OF MOVING PICTURES & ASSOCIATED AUDIO
.FOR D

ISO/IEC-CD-11172 - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - CODING OF.0.207.00
.OF MOVING PICTURES & ASSOCIATED AUDIO - FOR
.DIGITAL STORAGE

Is this a mistake or are standards documents really rediculously
priced?  Since these would be for my own personal use, I have to pay
for them out of my own personal pocket.  Just one of these eats my book
budget for quite a while.

I realize that they have to make money but this has got to be about a
1000% markup over printing costs; even assuming low volumes.

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~Subject: So, the Xing decoder is cheating, right ?

[ About what Xing is messing up again ... ]

Date: Mon, 3 Jan 1994 12:20:33 -0800 (PST)
From: Jared V Boone <jboone@patriot.wtfd.orst.edu>

Unfortunately, my program DOES NOT decode in real time.  But then, Xing's
program cheats.  It does not decode the entire file, but plays the lower
half of the subbands and only one channel of a stereo pair.  My program
will decode the whole thing, but there's a price to be paid.  Decoding
'together.mp2' takes approximately 797 seconds on a Intel 486DX2-66
Windows NT/Visual C++ PC, and 1152 seconds on a Intel 486DX2-66 NetBSD/GCC
V2.4 UNIX system.  So I guess that's about 3-5 times slower than necessary
for real-time playback.  I've got some tricks I want to try, but they'll
involve a lot of code modification.  I also don't think they'll make THAT
much difference.  We may be asking these processors to do more than they can.

I'll keep you posted...

Jared Boone (jboone@patriot.wtfd.orst.edu)

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~Subject: What is Aware Inc. doing ?

[ As of 1/1/94, a little bird told me... ]

Aware Inc. is considering making demo versions of their high quality MPEG
audio players/converters for Macs and SGIs available on the IUMA.

-IUMA staff

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~Subject: Will MPEG be included in QuickTime ?

From: mwilliam@envy.Reed.Edu (Son of Sam)
Date: 24 Mar 1994 09:07:39 GMT

I read a press release for Quicktime 2.3 (due to developers this month :)  
and Apple claims that with this new version of their extension one can
get 15 fps at 640 x 480 on an LC 475! and Full motion (30 fps) at the next  
screen size down.... 

.That's decent for a low horsepower machine.  Whether or not this  
proves itself in practice, we'll see...

.But the real point of this post revolves around apple's  
announcement that QT2.3 incorporates MPEG technology... That's right, now,  
instead of needing to convert MPEG to QT, Macs will be MPEG savvy.  It  
also mentions that you'll be able to encode MPEG's (with sound) with your  
Mac...

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~Subject: What's about MPEG-2 software ?

From: cfogg@netcom.com (Chad Fogg)
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1994 18:05:04 -0700
Message-Id: <199404210105.SAA14372@mail.netcom.com>
Subject: Re:  MPEGFAQ31: call for papers

The MPEG Software Simulation Group, a development effort comprised 
of MPEG committee participants, will soon release both an encoder 
and decoder for MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video.  Principle contributors 
of the MPEG-2 S/W are: Stefan Eckart (Univ. Munich), Chad Fogg (Xenon
Microsystems), and Cheung Auyeung (Motorola). Systems software will be 
included at a later date.  

Also, the Committee Draft of ISO/IEC 11172-5 (Part 5) containing 
software of MPEG-1 Systems, Video, and Audio will be presented
in May 1994.

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~Subject: What about good MPEG Hardware encoders (Optivision) ?

OptImage does sell one (2 actually: Mac&PC)) MPEG-hardware-boards along 
with other tools (multiplexer, disc builder, disc burner...)

please change the contact point to:

    info@optimage.com or sales@optimage.com

We have a Real-Time full SIF MPEG encoding board from Optivision.
The board can only do I and P frames now, but B frames will be supplied
once new Microcode is available from C-Cube.

How much is the Encoder board ? Probably very expensive.. ?

[ about 20.000 $ !!! ]

The streams from this board have a few artifacts, but over-all look
quite good.

Their telephone number in the US is:

    (415) 855-0200

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~Subject: What's about CD-I ?

From: Morten Hjerde <100034.663@compuserve.com>
Date: 17 Sep 93 13:08:21 EDT
Subject: Re: MPEG-FAQ Audio-part ?

The people I know is working on MPEG is Philips/Compression Labs for their
"digital video" CD-I's. Digigram in France is producing some nice MPEG cards
for the PC. You would want to avoid their older PCX3 cards because their
MPEG implementation were a little odd. Their new PCX5 and PCX3 should be
fine. Cardinal are introducing an MPEG driver for their new PC card. The driver
has not been released. It's developed by Xing. I've played around with
earlier Xing MPEG Audio stuff and it looked and sounded nice. C-Cube also
have written an MPEG codec (for the AD2015 I believe). I don't know if they
are doing anything with it. For broadcast
industry use there are several others, also a couple of German vendors that
makes stand-alone units. I don't have their names here. Here in Norway Tandberg
are making a logger w. MPEG compression.
(I have no connection to any of the above)
 
Source code? I was hoping you could tell me that <g>.
 
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~Subject: What is the PCMotion Player ?

From: kothary@mprgate.mpr.ca
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 93 16:12:22 PDT

I recently bought the Optibase PCMotion Player.  This is the real 
time MPEG 1 decompressor.  I have only tested it with a couple of 
clips so far but it seems to work very well.  The decoded picture is 
the best I have seen so far.  There are very few artifacts. The two 
clips I have tested to date are tigers.mps ( a system level stream 
they included with the board) and starwars.mpg (an older video level 
clip I had sitting around.) The tigers clip was very good while the 
Star Wars was not nearly as good.  I don't know if this reflects 
advances in encoder technology or that Optibase does some funny 
stuff with their files.  

The board was very easy to install and ran pretty much the first 
time.  The only problems I had with the company are that they are 
very difficult to contact and seem to be understaffed.  I constantly 
hear the excuse that Mr X has not been able to contact me because he 
is very busy since he is on N different projects.  Also they seem to 
be a funny company in that their employees seem to continually shift 
between their Isreal and two US offices.  As you can imagine, it is 
very difficult to contact people who constantly change continents!

The other big problem with the board is that it can only take data 
in through the ISA bus.  It is not clear how to use this sort of 
card in a network unless one is willing to dedicate the entire PC to 
just one application.  The bus on my PC seems quite full when I use 
this card.  I think using either a T1, MVIP, SCSI, etc interface 
might make a more usuable card.  

Overall, for the kind of money they want, it seems to be a 
worthwhile board except the utility is limited to evaluation of MPEG 
and some composing rather than watching actual movies since 
networking is weak.

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~Subject: What is the MPEG-2 ISO number ?

From: Tom Pfeifer <pfeifer@fokus.gmd.de>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 1994 16:26:01 +0200

Heres the number of the MPEG-2 commission draft:

Workgroup ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC29N 660

Standard ISO-CD 13818 - {1,2,3} (like usual {system, video, audio})

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~Subject: Some papers about MPEG-audio

From: scott.k.diamond@email.HUB.TEK.COM
Subject: MPEG Audio
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 18:47:02 -0800

ISO-MPEG-1 Audio: A Generic Standard for Coding of High Quality 
.Digital Audio
Karlheinz Brandenburg and Gerhard Stoll
Journal of the Audio Engineering Society
October 1994, Volume 42, Number 10
Pages 780-792

Guide to MPEG-1 Audio Standard
Seymour Shlien
IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting
December 1994, Volumne 40, Number 4
Pages 206-218

Wideband Speech and Audio Coding
Peter Noll
IEEE Communications Magazine
November 1993, Volume 31, Number 11
Pages 34-44

Signal Compression Based on Models of Human Perception
Nikil Jayant, James Johnston and Robert Safranek
Proceedings of the IEEE
October 1993, Volume 81, Number 10
Pages 1385-1421

Overview of the MPEG/Audio Compression Algorithm
Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 2187, 1994
pages 260-273

               Scott Diamond
    \  . /       Tektronix, Audio Measurement Group
     / \         P.O. Box 500, M.S. 58-639
    < s >        Beaverton, Oregon 97077-0001
     \ /         wk: (503) 627-6304  hm: (503) 643-6779
   /     \       scott.k.diamond@tek.com

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~Subject: Where can I find more documents about what Berkeley is doing ?

From: Larry Rowe <larry@plateau.cs.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 17:39:36 -0800

o papers/94MMComputing.ps.Z - copies of slides from a highlight talk at
  the UC Berkeley Industrial Liason Program on multimedia computing.  Main
  topics: importance of mosaic/www, video-on-demand architectures and problems,
  and desktop video conferencing.

o papers/CMMPEG-SPIE94.ps.Z - A paper describing the heuristics we used
  to implement synchronized mpeg video and sparc audio playback in the
  CMPlayer system.

o papers/VodsArch-SPIE94.ps.Z - A paper describing the architecture of the
  the Berkeley Distributed VOD System that is designed to store thousands
  of hours of video material on tertiary storage devices that can be staged
  to video file servers.

o papers/VodsDB-SPIE94.ps.Z - A paper that describes the metadata database
  in the Berkeley Distributed VOD System.  The database contains a variety
  of indexes to the video material which a user can query to locate material
  of interest.

o papers/VideoCompression-Usenix94.*.ps.Z - Copies of slides from an invited
  talk on Video Compression given at Usenix '94 by L. Rowe.  The BW file has
  a black and white version of the slides with 2 to a page, and the Color file
  a color version with 1 slide to a page.

o papers/dv-at-ucb.txt -- A survey of digital video research in the EECS
  Department at U.C. Berkeley.  This article will appear in the 1994 EECS/ERL
  Research Summary.

o papers/compressed.ps.Z

o papers/VodsProp93.ps.Z - a revised version of the Berkeley VOD Server
  proposal first released on August 20, 1993.

o papers/VODProp-Rowe.ps.Z -- a rough draft of a proposal to be submitted
  to NSF to build a video-on-demand system.  Novel feature of the system
  is that it includes a large tertiary storage archive and a metadata
  database with an ad hoc query browser to search for particular videos.
  The archive server talks to several video file servers so that an
  organization can share file servers.

o papers/MM93Talk.ps.Z is a copy of the slides used for the talk at the ACM
  Multimedia 93 conference for the previous paper. The performance
  numbers comparing the mpeg player on different platforms were updated 
  the week before the conference so they reflect the most recent results.

o papers/{Mpeg94.txt,VODarch94.txt,VODdb94.txt} -- abstracts submitted
  to SPIE '94 that describe recent work on integrating our mpeg video 
  decoder into the CMPlayer and the design of the UCB video-on-demand system.

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~Subject: Is there a book about MPEG ?

From: Chad Fogg <cfogg@ole.cdac.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1993 02:02:58 -0700

Q. Is there a book on MPEG compression?
A. Yes, there will be a book published in Spring 1994 by the same
   authors who wrote the JPEG book (Bill Pennebaker, Joan Mitchell)
   with Didier Le Gall as an additional co-author.

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~Subject: Who are CD-I producers ?

There is a company called:

.ProLearn, Herr Vigneron

[ I would really like to start a list here. Please feedback me ;o) ]

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~Subject: Where can I get VideoCD and CD-I coding ?

Get your own VideoCD or CD-I done via the service bureau !

We offer you the full service to produce an MPEG VideoCD or a CD-I disk with
MPEG full-motion video on it for you.

Just provide the video tapes (S-VHS / Hi-8) and get your own VideoCD back,
playable on Sigma Design's Reel Magic MPEG card, Amiga CD-32 and
Phillips CD-I player. (soon coming out: GOLDSTAR- and JVC- and SAMSUNG-VideoCD 
players for around 350 US$ enduser price)

(In this moment we only offer PAL standard VideoCDs and CD-Is, which also could
be played with NTSC players; call for NTSC version)

Please call for current rates:

Hartmann Electronics
Mr. Dipl. Ing. Stefan Hartmann
Berlin, Germany

Tel: ++ 49 30 344 23 66

email:
harti@mikro.ee.tu-berlin.de

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~Subject: Where can I do MPEG encoding ?

We are offering MPEG-1 encoding from VHS, S-VHS, Video8 and Hi-8 tape.

You send us your tape, we will encode it to MPEG-1 standard IBP MPEG  
SYSTEM stream, compatible with White book or Reel Magic format.

Standard Format 352x288 PAL or 352x240 NTSC will be supported

Then we can also write it for you on a CD-ROM disk, so that you can play  
it on a Philips CD-I player with Digital Video Cartridge or via an MPEG  
player card like the Sigma Reel Magic card inside a PC via a CD-ROM drive.
Up to 70 minutes of Digital MPEG Video and Audio will fit on a single CD  
disk !


Rates are:

70 DM per Minute (with at least 15 minutes for one order)
60 DM per Minute (if it gets more than 30 minutes)

Writing it on CD-Rom is an additional 150 DM charge per order.

All prices without VAT.
(Current exchange rate is about 1.60 DM / 1 US$)

Please let me know, what you need.

Best regards, Dipl. Ing. Stefan Hartmann, c/o Hartmann Multimedia Service,  
Berlin, Germany

email to:
harti@contrib.de

FAX:   ++ 49 30- 344 92 79
Phone: ++ 49 30- 344 23 66

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~Subject: What the problem with all these file extensions for MPEG-files ?

Hm, nobody standarized the file extensions yet, the are just common use.
the first MPEG-users (Xing) just used .mpg for a file extension, but
they had their special (non MPEG-standard) format. Then the "invented"
.mp2 for audio only files (well .mp2 looks more like MPEG-2, does it ?
Some had file-extension they wanted, some ignored MS-DOS file systems ...


The following extensions are there:
 
.mpg       could be everything ;o) usally only Xing-format (only I-frame)
.mps       MPEG-1 IPB Systemstream (video and audio)
.m1v       MPEG-1 IPB only video or systemstream
.mpv       MPEG-1 IPB only video (sometime even .vmp)
 
.mp2       MPEG-1 only audio (mostly layer 1 or 2)
.mpa       MPEG-1 only audio (mostly layer 1 or 2) (sometimes even .amp)
.l3        MPEG-1 only audio (layer 3)
 
.m2v       MPEG-2 IPB only video (is there some MPEG-2 audio out ?)

My own idea for file extension looks like this: 
 
.m1s       MPEG-1 IPB systemstream (video and audio)
.m1v       MPEG-1 IPB videostream
.m1a       MPEG-1 IPB audiostream

.m2s       MPEG-2 IPB systemstream (video and audio)
.m2v       MPEG-2 IPB videostream
.m2a       MPEG-2 IPB audiostream

There is no real need for a support of I-frame only streams anymore.
There are PD-players with IPB-frame support for every platform now
and the new players can play the old streams too.

Roman Czyborra is working on getting these extension registered for
WWW-use, so let's see ...

Look up the URL=http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~czyborra/registrations/ for
how this process is going on.

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~Subject: How can I do RTP encapsulation of MPEG1/MPEG2 ?

There is a Internet Draft about that. It is usally called:

    draft-hoffman-rtp-mpeg-encap-01.txt

Here's the excerpt:

This draft describes a packetization scheme for MPEG video and audio
streams.  The scheme proposed can be used to transport such a video or audio
flow over the transport protocols supported by RTP.  Two profiles are
described. The first is designed to support maximum interoperability with
MPEG2 System environments.  The second is designed to maximize simplicity of
implementation and to leverage other efforts within IETF.


~Subject: Wo kann ich den MPEG-standard bestellen ?

[ Only for Germans... ]

Ihr koennt den MPEG-draft-I beim Beuth Verlag bekommem.


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~Subject: SECTION 10. - WHERE TO FIND MORE INFOS

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~Subject: What newsgroups discuss MPEG ?

Well, first you can check the related news-groups:

  comp.graphics, comp.graphics.animation, comp.compression, comp.multimedia,
  comp.sys.amiga.multimedia, comp.mail.multi-media,
  alt.binaries.pictures.utilities

The first part of this FAQ about MPEG came from Mark Adler, published
in the FAQ for the newsgroup 'comp.compression'.

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~Subject: How can 'archie' help me ?

Then you can ask 'archie' to find all NEW mpeg-releated software
by sending the following mail (with no title):

  set search sub
  prog mpeg mpg
  quit

to one of the following archie-mail-servers:

  archie@archie.ans.net
  archie@archie.rutgers.edu
  archie@archie.sura.net
  archie@archie.mcgill.ca
  archie@archie.funet.fi
  archie@archie.au
  archie@archie.doc.ic.ac.uk


Or look for it with archie on the Internet like this:

telnet 128.214.6.102
archie
set search sub
prog mpeg mpg

quit

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~Subject: SECTION 11. - QUESTIONS

These are some questions, ideas or whatever problems, where still no
solutions is found or nobody knows an answer. Please contact me via e-mail
if YOU find a solution for:

1) Interleaving should be the next step in MPEG-development.
   There free audio- and video-code now. Now we have to
   synchronize it. Stefan Eckhardt and Simmons both can split
   a full-MPEG-stream, but there is no free code !

   And Chris Moar's demultiplexer is available, but still only
   works on UNIX !!

   So, who's working on it ?

2) Are there multimedia-specialized mailboxes out there ? Please send
   a filelisting of your mpeg-archive, a description of how to obtain
   the files, costs, connection times, telefon-numbers etc.

3) Who can send me informations about MPEG-I-Videos stored on CD-I CD's ?
   Who can provide a list and keep it up-to-date ?
   Who can provide information about CD-I and MPEG in general ?

4) I'm still looking for a program, that I cant find anymore.
   "SPRAW", a program to convert real MPEG-stream into Xing-format
   (well we would really need one, thats doing the other way around).
   Whos has them ? Who knows more ?

5) That MPEG book announced for Spring 1994 ? Is that really out ?
   How has it's exact title, author names and ISBN-number ?
   Is the following title right ?

       "MPEG1 video compression standard"

6) Is this FAQ really readable with the FAQ-mode from emacs ?
   Can you read it with a good news-reader question by question ?
   Did not try this out ...


7) How many people would like to have a CD-Rom containing material
   for testing MPEG-encoders ? Source material, example streams
   for several needs, for several formats, comparable encoding
   results and messurements and all needed encoding, decoding
   tools could be supplied. If there are enough, we might do some.
   We already have enough reference material, frames and utils and
   ideal streams to compare results.

Please mail to:

  phade@cs.tu-berlin.de

if you have more information, than I have.

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