Index to Multimedia Information Sources

last update: June 13, 1995
please send comments, suggestions etc. to:
Simon Gibbs

Recent Changes: International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE); Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JMCC); Interactive Multimedia Association (IMA); MPEG-1 Analysis and Editing; ATSC (Advanced Televsion Systems Committee); NOSSDAV'95 Proceedings; Proceedings IEEE Workshop on Synchronization; MMWIRE; Berkeley Multimedia Research Institute; Macromedia Authorware Page; Arc Gallery; Stock Footage
Table of Contents: Current Events
Guides
FAQs
Software
Media Delivery Services and Trials
Media Archives
Research
Conference Announcements
Bibliographies
Newsgroup Archives
Standards
CD Formats
Digital Galleries
Companies and Commercial Services
Hypertext and Hypermedia
Miscellaneous Information
Current Events: CyberStar'95
Guides: Acronym Server; All Music Guide; Cable Regulation Digest; CWI Audio File Formats Guide; Desktop Publishing Home Page; Desktop Video Conferencing Products; Document Understanding and OCR; Film and Video Resources Guide; Macromedia Director Page; MIDI Home Page; Mobile Computing; MPC (Multimedia PC) Specification; MPEG Howto; Multicast Backbone (MBONE) Technical Info; Music and CD-ROM Publishing Guide; Music Resources; Open GL; Satellite TV; Seybold Report on Digital Media
FAQs: Amiga; Animation (rec.arts.animation); Anime; Audio Formats; Audio (rec.audio); CD-I; CD-ROM; Compression; Copyrights; Cryptography FAQs USENET and RSA; Digital Signal Processing; Fonts; Graphics; Image Processing; JPEG; Macintosh; Multicast Backbone (MBONE); Motif; MPEG FAQ (v1.1); MPEG FAQ (v2.0); MPEG FAQ (HTML); Music; PC Sound Cards; PEX; Postscript FAQ (v1.10); Postscript FAQ (v2.02); Realtime Computing; Satellite TV; SGI; SGML; Speech; Standards; Text; X11; Usenet FAQ List.
Software (generally sources, not binaries): adpcm (ADPCM codec); AF (AudioFile - an audio server); AMOS Audio Tool 1.1 (Sun SPARC); BIT (Image Viewer/Editor, MPEG/FLI/FLC/DL player - SGI binaries); CU-SeeMe (Mac video conferencing) CU-SeeMe reflector sites etc.; DIVE (distributed real-time 3D environment); G711, G721, G723 (audio codecs); GSM 6.10 (speech codec); H261 (video codec); hpcdtoppm (PhotoCD decoder); IVS (H261 video conferencing); imtools (SDSC image conversion tools); MAEstro (multimedia authoring tool); mpegaudio (MPEG audio Layer-1 and Layer-2 encoder/decoder); layer3 (MPEG audio Layer-3 encoder/decoder); maplay (MPEG audio Layer-1 and Layer-2 player); mpeg_encode (Berkeley MPEG encoder); mpeg_play (Berkeley MPEG player); mpeg_player (extended Berkeley MPEG player); MPEGTool (U. of Pennsylvania MPEG encoder); MPEG-2 encoder/decoder; Multimedia WWW PC (authoring); Network Audio (an audio server); NEVOT (audio conferencing); nv (video conferencing); PictureWindow (video conferencing); pvrg (Stanford Portable Video Research Group JPEG, MPEG, p64 codecs); qt2mpeg (QuickTime to MPEG converter); scalable image/video encoder/decoder (Berkeley); sd (Internet AV session director); sox (Sound conversion); SQUISH (lossy and lossless audio compression); Sparkle (MPEG to QuickTime); vat (audio conferencing); Xanim (X windows FLI/FLC/QuickTime/AVI... player)
Media Delivery Services and Trials: CBC Radio Trial; Info Post; Internet Multicasting Service; Internet Talk Radio (USA); Live Video Feeds; Media on Demand (MBONE retransmission); Theodore Tugboat (CBC Television Program); Video File Browser
Media Archives: Acoustic Music Server; Adam Curry's Music Server; alt.binaries.pictures.misc; ANIMA (Arts Network for Integrated Media Applications); ArtSource; Astronomical Pictures; AVI Archive I; AVI Archive II; CyberNet; Delft Digital Picture Archive; Director Archive; DVI Archive; Folk Songs; Fractal Movie Archive; Internet Font Archive; Internet Font Browser; Internet Underground Music Archive (IUMA); Leeds Multimedia Archive; Macromedia ftp Archive; Medical Image Archive; Movie Database Browser; MPEG audio test bitstreams; MPEG Movie Archive; Music Archives (often busy, Gopher service suspended); NASA Image Archive; NASA MPEG movies; On-Line Music Database; Planet Earth Image Archive; Rob's "New" Multimedia Lab; Sounds; Space Movie Archive; Stock Footage; UNC Multimedia Archive; UUNET archive; The WELL; White House Pictures
Research: Advanced Telecommunications Program (Lawrence Livermore National Labs); Andrew Consortium; ATDNet (follow on of ARPANet); ATM Forum; AudioFile TR (long) plus USENIX paper; Berkeley Multimedia Papers; CWI Multimedia Papers; Collaborative Systems Research Group; Digital Libraries (report archive); Digital Media Center (Singapore); EBONE Pan-European Multi-Protocol Backbone; GMD Digital Media Lab; GMD Multimedia Forum; IDOMENEUS (multimedia research in Europe); Immersive Multimedia Interface Research Group (U of Colorado); Interactive Media Group (University of Massachusetts at Lowell); IRCAM; Lancaster Multimedia Papers; Media Futures Program (SRI International); MIT Media Lab; Multimedia Communications Laboratory (Boston University); Multimedia Communications Research Lab (U of Ottawa); Multimedia Integrated Conferencing for European Researchers (MICE); Object Systems Group (University of Geneva); The Pegasus Project; RARE Report (A Survey of Distributed Multimedia Research, Standards, Products); RARE Report (Network Access to Multimedia Information); Stanford Digital Library Project; Stanford University Medical Media Information Technologies (SUMMIT); Telemedia, Networks and Systems Group (MIT); TENET Research Group (Berkeley); VEX (video extensions to X); XMedia; ZGDV Multimedia Information (a collection of papers)
Conference Announcements: May 1995; CHI'95; June 1995; ED-MEDIA 95; September 1995; Very Large Data Bases - VLDB'95; November 1995; ACM Multimedia'95; International Conference on Multimedia Modelling 95
Bibliographies: Computer Science Bibliographies Europe and North America and Glimpse Server; CACM; Computer Graphics Index; CSCW and searchable index; Database Article Archive; educational; HCI and searchable index; Multimedia Operating Systems; Multimedia Review; netlib (mathematical software); Networks; Objects; SIGGRAPH; SIGMOD; Telecom Archive; Library of Congress
Newsgroup Archives: comp.multimedia ( US and Europe); comp.os.os2.multimedia; comp.sys.amiga.multimedia; alt.binaries.multimedia
Standards: CCITT; CIE; IEC; H.261; HyTime; Internet (RFCs, drafts, standards, IETF) (multimedia-related RFCs); IMA RFTs (Interactive Multimedia Association); MIME Types and MIME Proposal (RFC 1341) and MIME Overview; RTF; SGML; List of Multimedia Standards; List of Online Standards
CD Formats: CD Formats - Overview; CD-ROM (FAQ); CD-I (FAQ); Photo CD (Description); Photo CD (Kodak Archive); Walnut Creek CD-ROM archive
Digital Galleries and Museums: Artists CD-ROM Show; Art+Com; Art History Images; Australian National University; Beckman Visualization Facility; Classical Architecture of the Mediterranean Basin; CinemaSpace; Conservatoire National des Arts et M├ętiers; CROSSWIRE Images; Depth Probe; Electronic Visualization Laboratory; The Exploratorium; EXPO; Filter Art; FineArt Forum Online US Australia; FineArt Forum WWW Resource Directory; FineMedia Web Pages; Fractal Art Gallery; Gallery of Amiga Art; Genetic Art; Geometry Center Interactive Gallery; Georgia Tech GVU Lab; HEI Art Gallery; Kaleidospace; Krannert Art Museum; Le Louvre; Mathart; Mount Wilson Observatory; Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Cagliari; NCSA Digital Gallery; Online Museum of Singapore Art & History; OTIS Project; PING; Pixel Motion; The Promotional Interactive Gallery of Entertainment; Rooms for Researcher; San Diego Supercomputing Center; Strange Interactions; UCB Museum of Paleontology; UNC Virtual Museum; UnderWorld Industries' Web's Edge; Venus and Milo; WAXweb Home Page
Companies and Commercial Services: Computer and Communication Companies; CommerceNet; Commercial Sites on the Web
Hypertext and Hypermedia: General Info; Conferences; Standards; Systems; Xanadu
Miscellaneous Information: CSCW Yellow Pages; Guide to Broadcast Programming Sources; HCI Launching Pad; Newton; Virtual Reality; Zoomer; Digital Information Infrastructure Guide (DIIG); National Information Infrastructure Proposal; COMPTON Patent Reversed