CU-SeeMe for Windows and information about:
- Your Windows PC itself
- Video capture cards (optional)
- Winsock Stacks
4-26-95 Richard Kennerly rbk1@cornell.edu
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Your Windows PC itself
System Requirements:
For receive-only:
- 386SX processor or higher.
- Windows 3.1 running in Enhanced Mode.
- Windows Sockets compliant TCP/IP stack. See below.
- A 256 color (8 bit) video driver at any resolution
(640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, or higher).
To send video as well as receive:
- 386DX processor or higher.
- Windows 3.1 running in Enhanced Mode.
- Windows Sockets compliant TCP/IP stack. See below.
- A 256 color (8 bit) video driver at any resolution
(640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, or higher).
- Video capture board that supports Microsoft Video For Windows.
(See below)
- A video camera to plug into the video capture board.
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Video Capture Cards (by Albert Foo):
Folks, here's my updated list of video capture boards that work with
CU-SEEMe for Windows. Thanks to those to posted and replied by emails.
If you have tested a board that work with CU-SEEme and it's not on this
list, please email me with your information. I'll try to periodically post
this information.
List of Video Capture Boards that work with CU-SEEMe
for Windows.
Product: Video Spigot (Discontinue)
Confirmed by: Rich Kennerly
Made by: Creative Labs
List Price: - unknown -
Product: Video Blaster FS200
Confirmed by: Bennett Frankel
Made by: Creative Labs
List Price: - unknown -
Product: ComputerEyes RT
Confirmed by: Rich Kennerly
Made by: Digital Vision
List Price: $399
Product: ComputerEyes 1024
Confirmed by: Rich Kennerly
Made by: Digital Vision
List Price: $599
Product: miroVideo DC1 TV
Confirmed by: scr@advge.magwien.gv.at
Made by: miro Computer Products
List Price: $899
Product: Reveal tv300
Confirmed by: jnguyen@wwa.com (Jack Nguyen)
Made by: Reveal
List Price: - unknown -
Product: Orchid Vidiola Pro/D
Confirmed by: JPickle@aol.com
Made by: Orchid Technology
List Price: $699
Product: Win/TV Cinema/TV-Celebrity/TV-HighQ
Confirmed by: dreblow@alf.cns.muskingum.edu, albert@more.net
Made by: Hauppauge Computer Works
List Price: Cinema - $349, Celebrity - $449, HighQ - $499
List of Video Capture boards that do NOT work with CU-SEEme
Product: Pro Movie Studio/Spectrum
Confirmed by: arvell@bilbo.pic.net (arvell hairston)
Made by: MediaVision
Problems: - Upside down image -
List Price: - unknown -
Product: Intel Smart Video Recorder Pro
Confirmed by: jasontm@mindspring.com (J. T. Montgomery)
Made by: Intel Corp.
Problems: - unknown -
List Price: $570
Product: Video Blaster RT300
Confirmed by: Rich Kennerly
Made by: Creative Labs
Problems: - unknown -
List Price: $499.95
List of untested Video Capture Boards for Windows available in the market:
Product Company MSRP
WatchIT! Pro New Media Graphics $595.00
Reveal VC500 Reveal - unknown -
Video Blaster MP400 Creative Labs - unknown -
WaveWatcher TV-II Aztech International $429
Megamotion Alpha Systems Lab $1095
Video Basic ATI Technologies $249
Video-It! ATI Technologies $499
Video Galaxy Gamma Aztech Labs $199
SNAPplus VL Cardinal Technologies $695
VideoStar Pro Diamond Multimedia Systems $529
ComputerEyes/VLB Digital Vision $499
Movie Machine Pro Fast Electronic U.S. $999
Picture Perfect Pro In-Motion $699
MovieMan Logitech $299
Marvel II Matrox $795
Marvel Matrox $995
Vidiola Orchid Technology $399
Maxmedia VR UMAX Technologies $299
Maxmedia MR Pro UMAX Technologies $699
Captivator VideoLogic $349
VideoPacker Plus VIC Hi-Tech Corp $375
Albert Foo (albert@more.net)
Missouri Research and Education Network
University of Missouri - Columbia
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Winsock Stacks:
The following winsock stacks have been found to work with CU-SeeMe:
- Netmanag Chameleon
- Trumpet
- FTP Software's PCTCP
- Microsoft's winsock stack
The following winsock stacks have had problems:
- Beame and Whiteside - does not work at all.
- Lan WorkPlace for DOS - works for a few, not most people though;
we don't know why yet.
Last updated May 25, 1995.