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>Subject: Re: #6687 MCI calls, videodisc player, video overlay cards
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>From: "Debra Mandel" <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 09:10:04 -0400

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Hi:

Our desktop support specialist says that Windows 2000 and XP can control
serial devices, but to be sure, test it out.

Good luck.

Debra Mandel,
Head, Media Center
Northeastern University Libraries
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617-373-4902; 617-373-8955-FAX


                                                                                               
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--- Forwarded Message from Slava Paperno <[log in to unmask]> ---

>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