Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 01:33:48 -0700 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live.com> Cc: Chris Shenton <cshenton@it.hq.nasa.gov>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Video capture cards for MBONE? Laptops for MBONE? Message-ID: <199604180833.BAA00310@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 18 Apr 1996 01:30:23 PDT." <1.5.4.16.19960418012950.0bc794b8@pop.best.com>
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Hi, It should be doable in the near future provided that we get hold of a pcmia video capture board and its specs. Cheers, Amancio >>> Ross Finlayson said: > 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. >
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