Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!mintaka!mit-eddie!bu.edu!bu-cs!lectroid!cloud9!jjmhome!m2c!umvlsi!dime!dime.cs.umass.edu!nayeri From: nayeri@takahe.cs.umass.edu (Farshad Nayeri) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: Dan Winkler's Video XCMDs Message-ID: Date: 14 Jan 90 23:52:30 GMT References: <661@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> <1005taylorj@yvax.byu.edu> <1990Jan10.020927.15011@i-core.UUCP> Sender: news@dime.cs.umass.edu Reply-To: Nayeri@cs.umass.edu Organization: Dept of Comp and Info Sci, Univ of Mass (Amherst) Lines: 13 In-reply-to: benjamin@i-core.UUCP's message of 10 Jan 90 02:09:27 GMT In article <1990Jan10.020927.15011@i-core.UUCP> benjamin@i-core.UUCP (Benjamin F. Kuo) writes: >A word of advice: > Avoid Apple's so-called "VideoDisc Toolkit", it makes a mess of things > (too much error checking... bogs down the system FAST...) Can you expand on this one? What are the problems with the Apple VideoDisc Toolkit? Of course the faster the better, but I don't think speed is that much of a concern when you are interacting with a videodisc player. Farshad Nayeri [nayeri@cs.umass.edu] Object Oriented Systems Laboratory University of Massachussets