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From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: X efficiency questions
Message-ID: <1991Mar1.092915@wsl.dec.com>
Date: 1 Mar 91 17:29:15 GMT
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In article <2082@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov>, lemkin@ncifcrf.gov (Pete Lemkin) writes:
|> 1. Is there any way to zoom XImages inside of the server? 
|> 3. Is there any way to do XGetImage/XPutImage using any sort of image
|> compression?

The proposed X Image Extension does stuff like this.  Specs appear on
the X11R4 tape.

|> 4. Is there any plans for standardizing on audio extensions for X11R5?

Can't comment on X11R5, but there are various groups working on
multi-media for X.  I don't think there is enough agreement to make
a particular implementation part of X yet, though.

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Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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