--- Forwarded Message from "Debra Mandel" <[log in to unmask]> --- >Subject: Re: #6687 MCI calls, videodisc player, video overlay cards >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> >From: "Debra Mandel" <[log in to unmask]> >Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 09:10:04 -0400 ------------------ 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 [log in to unmask] 617-373-4902; 617-373-8955-FAX LLTI-Editor <LLTI-Editor@Dartm To: [log in to unmask] outh.EDU> cc: Sent by: Language Subject: #6687 MCI calls, videodisc player, Learning and video overlay cards Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask] TMOUTH.EDU> 05/15/2002 08:39 AM Please respond to Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum --- Forwarded Message from Slava Paperno <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 23:31:53 -0400 >To: [log in to unmask] >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