Multimedia Information Sources

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Current Events: Compton Multimedia Patent
Ratings and Guides: CWI Audio File Formats Guide; MIDI; MPC (Multimedia PC) Specification; MPEG Howto; Open GL; Nielsen Ratings; Billboard Chart
FAQs: Amiga; Animation (rec.arts.animation); Anime; Audio Formats; Audio (rec.audio); CD-ROM; Compression; Digital Signal Processing; Fonts; Graphics; Image Processing; JPEG; Macintosh; 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.
Newsgroup Archives: comp.multimedia ( US and Europe); comp.os.os2.multimedia; comp.publish.cdrom.multimedia; comp.sys.amiga.multimedia; alt.binaries.multimedia
Software: adpcm (ADPCM codec); AF (AudioFile - an audio server); CU-SeeMe (Mac video conferencing); hpcdtoppm (PhotoCD decoder); G711, G721, G723 (audio codecs); H261 (video codec); IVS (H261 video conferencing); imtools (SDSC image conversion tools); MAEstro (multimedia authoring tool); mpeg_encode (Berkeley MPEG encoder); mpeg_play (Berkeley MPEG player); Network Audio (an audio server); NEVOT (audio conferencing); nv (video conferencing); PictureWindow: ftp to picwin.bbn.com, login as "picwin" (video conferencing); pvrg (Stanford Portable Video Research Group JPEG, MPEG, p64 codecs); qt2mpeg (QuickTime to MPEG converter); sd (Internet AV session director); sox (Sound conversion); vat (audio conferencing)
Media Archives: Internet Font Browser; Internet Underground Music Archive; Macromedia ftp Archive; UNC Multimedia Archive; Leeds Multimedia Archive; Movie Database Browser; Music; Sounds; Folk Songs; Rob's (NIH) Multimedia Lab; UUNET archive; The WELL
Research Activities: AudioFile TR (long) plus USENIX paper; Berkeley Multimedia Papers; IDOMENEUS (multimedia research in Europe); Lancaster Multimedia Papers; Multimedia Communications Laboratory (Boston University); Object Systems Group (University of Geneva); RARE Report; VEX (video extensions to X); XMedia
Standards Activities: CCITT; H.261; HyTime; Internet (RFCs, drafts, standards, IETF); IMA RFTs (Interactive Media Association); MIME Types and MIME Proposal (RFC 1341); SGML
Educational Activities: Digital Presentation Technologies Resource Center; International Multimedia Resource Center (IMRC); Usenet University - Globewide Network Academy (UU-GNA)
Bibliographies: CACM; CSCW; educational; HCI; Multimedia Review; netbib (IEEE publications); Objects; SIGGRAPH; SIGMOD
Discussion Lists: Authorware (AWARE-L on listserv@ukanvm.cc.ukans.edu); Director (DIRECT-L on DIRECT-L@uafsysb.uark.edu)
The CD Family: Walnut Creek CD-ROM archive; CD-I; Photo CD
Digital Galleries and Museums: Australian National University; Beckman Visualization Facility; Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers; CROSSWIRE Images; Electronic Visualization Laboratory; EXPO; Filter Art; Genetic Art; Gallery of Amiga Art; Georgia Tech GVU Lab; HEI Art Gallery; Krannert Art Museum; NCSA Digital Gallery; OTIS Project; San Diego Supercomputing Center; Strange Interactions; UCB Museum of Paleontology; UNC Virtual Museum; Underworld Industries; Venus and Milo
Commercial Activities: GNN; MTV; Book Stacks Unlimited, Inc; Multimedia and Video Center (MVC)
Magazines: Electronic Newsstand; Electronic Publications; IEEE Multimedia; Intertext; Multimedia-related Magazines; Newsday; Trincoll Journal; Wired Magazine
Publishers: Addison-Wesley; Kluwer; Mother Jones; Meckler; O'Reilly & Associates; Prentice Hall; University Presses
Hypertext and Hypermedia: General Info; Conferences; Standards; Systems
Virtual Reality: CAVE; Delft Virtual Environments Research; NCSA Virtual Reality Lab; sci.virtual.worlds FAQ; UK VR-SIG; Virtual Reality Archive; Virtual Reality ftp Sites (from Apple); Virtual Reality ftp Sites (from NCSA); Virtual Reality Newsgroups
Miscellaneous Information: CSCW Yellow Pages; Guide to Broadcast Programming Sources; Newton

contact: Simon Gibbs (simon@cui.unige.ch)