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From: terry@comcon.UUCP (Terry LaGrone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AmigaVision
Summary: AmigaVision with Pioneer players.
	 Frame numbers, but no timecode.  (CAV supported, not CLV)
Message-ID: <422@comcon.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jul 90 18:36:41 GMT
References: <1990Jun28.200631.6576@hayes.fai.alaska.edu> <52921@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Organization: Computer Connection, Anchorage Alaska
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In article <52921@ames.arc.nasa.gov>, gutierrez@noc.arc.nasa.gov (Robert Gutierrez) writes:
> axjjb@acad3.fai.alaska.edu (BRYANT JOHN J) writes:
> |> 	Well, It seems that AmigaVision is shipping withthe Educational 

> What I want to do is a presentation of an anim file, using a Pioneer
> LV-series laserdisc player (the ones with the RS-232, the same ones
> Amigavision is supposed to support).  But, what I want to do is play
> back the anim file single-frame (one frame at a time) timed to the
> laserdisc's time-code.
> As it stands now, I have to hand-time the frame-advancing on an anim player,
> sometimes resulting in missed cues.  Not pretty...
> 
> Suggestions???
> 
>    Robert Gutierrez
>    Office of Space Science and Applications,
>    NASA Science Internet Project - Network Operations Center.
>    Moffett Feild, California.

I have been using AmigaVision for 6 months with the Pioneer player.
  AmigaVision
fully supports two-way communication between the player and the program for
CAV discs.  If you really need time-code, I assume you are using a CLV disc
(long play).  AmigaVision does not support those type discs at this time.
AmigaVision is also not a scripted language, so some things that can be done
easily with a text editor are hard in AmigaVision.  Overall, I am totally sold
on AmigaVision, so much so that I have converted my main projects over from
PILOT.  I wrote an Amiga version of PILOT three years ago due to the total lack
of laser disc support at that time.  

To solve your problem, if you have the later type of Pioneer player (4200, 2200,
or 8000), it would be simple to set up a polling subroutine within THE DIRECTOR
	EXECUTE a,"QueryProgram_you_write > Response_file"
	OPEN 0,"Response_file"
	READ 0,$Response,8
	CLOSE
	IF  ...   THEN ...   ELSE 

AREXX would be much more elegant.

Terry H. LaGrone
Flight Training Devices - Alaska
(See PILOT under Authoring Systems in Amazing Computing Product Guide)