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From: page@ulowell.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Amiga controlled video decks (was Re: video tapes for data?)
Message-ID: <7872@swan.ulowell.edu>
Date: 1 Jul 88 12:49:58 GMT
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Reply-To: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Organization: University of Lowell, Computer Science Dept.
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Mike Meyer:
>computer control of video decks.

thomson@cs.utah.edu.UUCP (Rich Thomson):
>Interactive MicroSystems sells something they call the MediaPhile(TM)

It's an IR controller, plugs into the mouse and audio ports.  It only
talks to the Sony 8mm decks.  As far as I know, the only application
for it is written in Basic, by the guy who did the hardware.

Rich Miner and I designed and started implementation of an Amiga
"media.library" so programmers could write applications in any
language.  It was actually a device but we felt the library approach
to be superior ... even designed in async I/O via the libraries.

Unfortunately, the designer of the hardware kept changing it and the
requirements for the software, and Rich and I couldn't meet his time
lines, so we handed over the design and some code to read the tape
counter, then left the project.

Even with this low-cost approach, we felt it would be possible to
get the 8mm decks to do single-frame recording through various tape
manipulations via computer control.

..Bob
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Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept.  page@swan.ulowell.edu  ulowell!page