From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Apr 18 01:31:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-multimedia Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA21856 for multimedia-outgoing; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 01:31:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dns2.noc.best.net (dns2.noc.best.net [206.86.0.21]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA21835 Thu, 18 Apr 1996 01:31:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kaipara.live.com (kaipara.live.com [206.86.37.12]) by dns2.noc.best.net (8.6.12/8.6.5) with SMTP id BAA16902; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 01:30:23 -0700 Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 01:30:23 -0700 Message-Id: <1.5.4.16.19960418012950.0bc794b8@pop.best.com> X-Sender: rsf@pop.best.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (16) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Amancio Hasty Jr." From: Ross Finlayson Subject: Re: Video capture cards for MBONE? Laptops for MBONE? Cc: Chris Shenton , multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I saw someone at the last IETF (in Los Angeles) showing off one of the new high-end IBM portable computers (possibly a ThinkPad) that has a small video camera mounted at the top of the lid (above the display). The camera could be swiveled to either point at the user, or away from it. Anyway, this computer was running AIX (with X-windows) and the user (an IBM employee, I think) was showing video from the camera in a window of his display. It all looked pretty cool. It would probably have been straightforward to hook this into the MBone. The portable computer (I hesitate to call it a laptop) was quite heavy (about 10 pounds, I think), and probably very expensive. But in a year or two... Ross.