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- From: potts@oit.itd.umich.edu (Paul Potts)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools,comp.multimedia
- Subject: Re: Visual Basic for Windows and DVI
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 23:04:32 GMT
- Organization: Instructional Technology Laboratory, University of Michigan
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- In article <1jcldnINN41b@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> roger@oit.itd.umich.edu (Roger Espinosa) writes:
- >Hi.
-
- Hi, Roger!
-
- >
- >Having had a lot of fun programming in Visual Basic for DOS at one of
- >my jobs, I'm now trying to get them to support Visual Basic for Windows
- >(instead of Linkway Live) for the development of our multimedia software.
-
- Where are you connecting from? I'm a current OIT employee.
-
- >While I have a gut feeling that VizBasic for Windows will let me do still
- >graphics just as well, it's using the specialized hardware that's in our
- >machines that I'm beginning to wonder about.
- >
- >So if *anyone* has *any* experience using VizBasic for Windows with
- >any of the hardware found in an IBM Ultimedia machine -- namely,
- > * IBM Video Capture Adapter
- > * IBM Audio Capture/Play Adapter
- > * IBM M-Motion
- > * IBM DVI
-
- It took me over a year of dealing with IBM to conclude that they really
- are no longer interested in supporting the M-Motion card. As far as I
- know they never did come out with an MCI driver for the card, so that I
- could write standard code that would run on this card and others. I've
- done substantial work developing a project (in Toolbook) that drives
- the M-Motion on a PS/2.
-
- I don't know what exactly is happening with the DVI card, but it is too
- expensive for us to experiment with. I've heard a lot of horror stories.
-
- I wound up having to use IBM's .DLLs for the multimedia development kit
- that they sell as a big bundle with hardware. The M-Control Program/2
- 2.0 was announced to support MCI but as far as I know it hasn't yet.
- Our IBM rep is *extremely* poor. It's no wonder IBM is sinking like
- a stone.
-
- I am only able to get these .DLLs to work with Windows 3.0, not 3.1,
- so for now my application works only under 3.0. We're going to be looking
- at non-IBM PCs with MCI solutions from now on, I think.
-
- As far as I know IBM is planning to support the DVI mainly with drivers
- for OS/2 2.0 and OS/2 Multimedia Presentation Manager. I don't think that
- is out either, although it might be in beta.
-
- Let me know if you've got any specific questions or better information.
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