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>Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 23:31:53 -0400
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>From: Slava Paperno <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: MCI calls, videodisc player, video overlay cards

This question will probably be understood only by old hands like me.

Once upon a time there used to be things called Pioneer videodisc players
(still available today!) that could be controlled by the Windows Media
player. The last I saw this happen was under Windows 95.

There used to be things called video overlay cards, later renamed TV-cards
(still available today), that could open an NTSC/PAL video window on the
computer screen whose size and position, etc., you could control via MCI
calls in Windows.

Does anyone know if a Pioneer videodisc player can be driven via a serial
port in Windows XP? Windows 2000?

Does anyone know if overlay cards exist that understand MCI calls?

We have several good apps that no one want to rewrite--and they need these
things.

Any information will be appreciated.

Thanks!

Slava Paperno
Slava Paperno
Department of Russian
Morrill Hall, Cornell University