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- From: malc@equinox.unr.edu (Malcolm Carlock)
- Newsgroups: comp.multimedia,comp.dcom.lans.fddi
- Subject: Networked videodisks?
- Message-ID: <5149@equinox.unr.edu>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 02:47:02 GMT
- Followup-To: comp.multimedia
- Organization: University of Nevada, Reno Campus Computing Services
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- Does anyone know if there are such things as networked videodisks? I.e.,
- a technology that would allow one multisession videodisk device to live
- on a server, with multiple client workstations able to obtain full-motion
- video, or something like it, via a network.
-
- "Ideally", the workstations in such a scenario would be PC's (potentially
- relatively cheap) connected to some kind of fast Unix server via a fiber
- net or something equally fast. Hopefully the fiber net could be gatewayed
- to nearby TCP/IP networks, to allow basic TCP/IP connectivity to/from the
- PC's and server, even if the (theoretical) specialized video traffic would
- be restricted to the local fiber net.
-
- All of this presumes, of course that 1) networked videodisk technology
- is available, 2) that the server can pump real-time video traffic of
- some sort onto the fiber at sufficient data rates, and 3) that suitable
- fiber network cards and software are available for the PC's and the server.
-
- If anyone has pointers to any of the technology described above, I'd
- be most grateful for any info.
-
- Regards,
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- Malcolm L. Carlock Internet: malc@unr.edu
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