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From: doug@eris (Doug Merritt)
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Subject: Re: Video Products
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Date: 9 Apr 88 20:03:46 GMT
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Summary: Request for more Perfect Vision info

In article <1412@ucqais.uc.edu> ggibeau@ucqais.uc.edu (George Gibeau) writes:
>     It does indeed exist.  A friend of mine purchased it for their
>lab, but had some initial problems.

Thanks for the info. Can you get your friend to give us the technical
specs? For instance, how many bits per pixel can it grab for maximum
quality (does it compare to DigiView's 21 bits per pixel?) For non-ham
modes, does it framegrab at exactly ((# bit planes) divided by 60) ?
Does it support HAM at all? Do they, perchance, document how to directly
read their interface themselves?

This last point has been a burr in my side for a long time...it'd be
nice to be able to write my *own* software to grab DigiView images.

Similarly for sound samplers. Future Sound was kind enough to send
me examples of C code to do so for their sampler, but it'd be nice
if we had a standard way to talk to *any* sound sampler. Like a
"snd:" device, for instance. I've been meaning to write one for
Future sound for the last 15 months but it doesn't look like I'm going
to get around to it after all.

	Doug Merritt		doug@mica.berkeley.edu (ucbvax!mica!doug)
			or	ucbvax!unisoft!certes!doug