From news Sun Jun 17 18:36:10 91 From: jnjortn@cs.sandia.gov (Jeffrey N. Jortner) Subject: Sound with NextTV I just started using the NextTV application and found it lacking with regards to sound. I would like to connect both the video and audio from a SVHS recorder to my NeXT. I was wondering if the simplest method would be to feed sound to the microphone port and then play it thru the built in speaker. Has anyone attempted this or have any better ideas ? From news Sun Jun 19 10:17:30 91 From: gmk@ucsc.edu (Gottfried Mayer-Kress) Subject: Re: Sound with NextTV In article <1991Jun17.183610.9137@cs.sandia.gov> jnjortn@cs.sandia.gov (Jeffrey N. Jortner) writes: > > I just started using the NextTV application and > found it lacking with regards to sound. I would like > to connect both the video and audio from a SVHS > recorder to my NeXT. I was wondering if the simplest > method would be to feed sound to the microphone port > and then play it thru the built in speaker. Has anyone > attempted this or have any better ideas ? > -- that would not work, unless you first record the video sound to a file. I got little Sony speakers (in black!), you would want to listen to your videos in stereo anyway, wouldn't you? From news Sun Jun 19 13:28:08 91 From: mll@aio.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Littlefield) Subject: Re: Sound with NextTV |> In article <1991Jun17.183610.9137@cs.sandia.gov> jnjortn@cs.sandia.gov (Jeffrey |> N. Jortner) writes: |> > |> > I just started using the NextTV application and |> > found it lacking with regards to sound. I would like |> > to connect both the video and audio from a SVHS |> > recorder to my NeXT. I was wondering if the simplest |> > method would be to feed sound to the microphone port |> > and then play it thru the built in speaker. Has anyone |> > attempted this or have any better ideas ? |> > -- Wait a minute, what's this NextTV??? I looked through all of the product lists I have (as well a grep-ing all of the saved news files I have been collecting for a year) and I couldn't find ANY reference to a NextTV. Please enlighten..... From news Sun Jun 19 16:39:13 91 From: lacsap@media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais) Subject: Re: Sound with NextTV In article <1991Jun19.132808.8384@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> mll@aio.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Littlefield) writes: > Wait a minute, what's this NextTV??? I looked through all of the > product lists I have (as well a grep-ing all of the saved news files I > have been collecting for a year) and I couldn't find ANY reference to > a NextTV. Please enlighten..... When NextDimension board shipped, NeXT included an upgrade package which includes three demo programs without source: NeXTtv, ScreenScape, and CompressionLab. In addition they included a sample video app with sources called Video.app which demonstrates the coding aspects of the NextDimension. NeXTtv is a demo program to show the digitizing of live analog video into a nextstep window. It allows you to also do some pretty neat compositing of tiff files and pipe all that appropriately to the ntsc resolution outputs of the NeXT. ScreenScape pipes a section (ntsc resolution) of your NeXTstep window to the ntsc res outputs, allowing you to videotape demos of your work. What is neat about screenscape is that it has a tracking mode where the ntsc output window moves depending upon where your mouse is. CompressionLab demos the JPEG (in software) image compression. It is nice to see what artifacts occur when you goose the JPEG Q level too high. We have been running the ND for about a week and a half now. It is fun to use. Demo programs are of course buggy... but as always you get used to not doing the stuff that crashes the window server. Speed, well the first thing to remember you are moving 24 bits per pel in the worse case... we find the machine usable, not a lighting 040 monochrome window server, but better than the 030 days.