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From: dwhite@DSYS.NCSL.NIST.GOV (Doug White)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.multi-media
Subject: video in x-windows?
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Date: 10 Apr 91 15:16:56 GMT
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I don't know if this is the right place for this, but...
	I am in a working group that did not start out to be focused on
multimedia systems and applications, but we are migrating. We have lashed
together a Sun 3, a Sparc, and 3 Sequent boxes, built a GUI with X-windows,
and have the means to display still pics, play audio and control a laser
disk distributed across these machines.
	We can control a laserdisk player from the console, but we are
using a separate monitor for viewing the disk contents. Does anyone
know of (or can recommend/caution) about the possibilities of sucking
the video from the disk player into an X-window? I'm not sure about
what issues I would need to address in answering this question ...
but I thought I might as well ask!
	Please reply to me (dwhite@dsys.ncsl.nist.gov) , if anyone
else is interested, I will bundle up the replies I get.
	Thanks in advance, Doug
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