Index to Multimedia Information Sources

last update: May 22, 1997
official home: http://viswiz.gmd.de/MultimediaInfo
sponsored by: GMD: German National Research Center for Information Technology
edited by: Simon Gibbs and Gabor Szentivanyi
comments, suggestions etc. to: [email protected]
visitors (Dec. 27/95 - Jan. 26/97): 100,175 (courtesy web-counter)

Recent Changes: Digital Consumer Formats; Telecommunications and Multimedia; Banff Centre's Multimedia Institute; EU Open Information Interchange Initiative; Books on Multimedia; Object-Oriented Multimedia Models; Hypertext System Architectures; The Tapeless Studio PC Audio; Worldwide TV Standards; Proc. Hypertext'96; DAVIC; Berkom GLUE Project (MHEG 5)

Table of Contents

FAQs, Guides, Tutorials

Software

Downloadable Binaries & Executables

Media Delivery Services and Trials

Media Archives

Research

Conference Proceedings

Conference Announcements & Call for Papers

Bibliographies

Newsgroup Archives

Standards

Companies and Commercial Services

Miscellaneous Information

FAQs, Guides, Tutorials, Lists: Usenet FAQ List
Audio: All Music Guide; CWI Audio File Formats Guide; MIDI Home Page; Audio (rec.audio); Music Resources; Speech; TrueSpeech FAQ; The Unix Sound System; Music and Sound Resources; Cakewalk Tutorial
Video: Film and Video Resources Guide; MPEG Howto; DVD FAQ; DVD Special Interest Group; Frame grabbers for Linux; MPEG FAQ (HTML); MPEG FAQ (v1.1); multimedia CODEC Collection; MPEG pointers and resources
Images: JPEG; GIF89a Tutorial; PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Home Page
Text: Fonts; Text
2D/3D Graphics, Animation, VR: Open GL; BSP Tree FAQ; Computer Vision Homepage; 3D Engines List; Animation (rec.arts.animation); PEX; Graphics; VRML FAQ; Virtual Reality Survey; The XAnim home Page; Computer Graphics on the Web; 3D Graphics File Formats; 2D Graphics File Formats
Authoring, Development Environments: Macromedia Authorware Page; ScriptX; Macromedia Director Page; Multimedia Authoring Systems FAQ; PowerMedia FAQs, Tutorials; The GLASS MHEG Project; ToolBook FAQs & Maillist (listserv)
Education: Guide to Multimedia Educational Material
Publishing: Desktop Publishing Home Page; Music and CD-ROM Publishing Guide; CD Information Center; Photo CD Page
Broadcasting, Conferencing: Desktop Video Conferencing Products; MBONE (Multicast Backbone) Home Page; PALplus FAQ; Satellite TV; Satellite TV; RealAudio FAQ; Distributed Video Production
Storage Technology: DVD articles; DVD Sony; CD-I; CD Plus; CD Formats - Overview; CD-I (FAQ); Photo CD (Description); Photo CD (Kodak Archive)
Hypertext, Hypermedia, World Wide Web: HTML Editors; World Wide Web FAQ; Å-Web; HTTP Guide; The SGML Open Home Page; WebObjects; Hypertext Basic Terms; Hypertext history and current research; Some Hypertext Products; Xanadu Home Page; HyperWave (formerly Hyper-G); Interactive Web Tools; Web Tools collection; Gamelan Java Directory
Miscellaneous: Acronym Server; Cable Regulation Digest; Document Understanding and OCR; Mobile Computing; MultiMediator - Multimedia Guide; MPC (Multimedia PC) Specification; Seybold Report on Digital Media; Amiga; Anime; Compression; Copyright Myths; Cryptography FAQs USENET and RSA; Digital Signal Processing; Heidsite: Multimedia/Mac Info; Macintosh; Motif; Realtime Computing; SGI; X11

Software (freeware, shareware, generally sources, eventually also compiled): 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); Browser plug-ins; Continuous Media Toolkit (Tcl/Tk based); CU-SeeMe (Mac video conferencing) CU-SeeMe reflector sites etc.; DIVE (distributed real-time 3D environment); FreePhone multicast Internet audio tool; G711, G721, G723 (audio codecs); GIMP Home Page (Linux, SUN, BSD, HP, SGI); GSM 6.10 (speech codec); H261 (video codec); hpcdtoppm (Photo CD decoder); imtools (SDSC image conversion tools); IVS (H261 video conferencing); MAEstro (multimedia authoring tool); MONET multimedia conferencing system; MPEG filtering software; MPEG audio (MPEG audio Layer-1 and Layer-2 encoder/decoder); MPEG audio (MPEG audio Layer-3 encoder/decoder); MPEG Player; 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-1 Analysis and Editing; 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); Shared Mosaic; Smacker; SoftwareVision; sox (Sound conversion); SQUISH (lossy and lossless audio compression); Sparkle (MPEG to QuickTime); vat (audio conferencing); Web Authoring Tools; W3 Kiosk Software USA and Europe; Xanim (X windows FLI/FLC/QuickTime/AVI... player)

Binaries, Executables: TrueSpeech binaries; NET TOOB Multimedia Player; Shockwave Plug-In; PowerMedia Visual Web Authoring; WebObjects (NT/Solaris/NeXTStep); GIMP Plug In's (Linux); HoTMetaL 2.0, 3.0 upgr. (Win, Mac, UN*X); Formula Graphics Authoring System (Win)

Media Delivery Services and Trials: Digital Artists Directory; Internet Multicasting Service; Internet Talk Radio (USA); mmphone (Multimedia Phone Service); Live Video Feeds; Media on Demand (MBONE retransmission); MMWIRE; The Multimedia Course; Radio Tower; Sohonet digital media MAN; Video File Browser

Media Archives: Acoustic Music Server; Adam Curry's Music Server; American Photo Syndicate; ANIMA (Arts Network for Integrated Media Applications); ArtSource; Astronomical Pictures; AVI Archive I; AVI Archive II; British Library National Sound Archive (NSA); CyberNet; Director Archive; DVI Archive; Folk Songs; Fractal Movie Archive; Internet Font Archive; Internet Font Browser; Internet Underground Music Archive (IUMA); 3D Mesh Object Catalog; Leeds Multimedia Archive; Macromedia ftp Archive; Medical Image Archive; The Internet Movie Database; MPEG audio test bitstreams; Multimedia, Film and Broadcasting Resources on the Internet; 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; Royalty Free Media Search Form; Sounds; Space Movie Archive; Stock Footage I; Stock Footage II; UNC Multimedia Archive; UUNET archive; Walnut Creek CD-ROM archive; The WELL; White House Pictures

Research: ACTS Multimedia Services; ACTS Multimedia Services Domain; Advanced Telecommunications Program (Lawrence Livermore National Labs); Andrew Consortium; ATDnet (Advanced Technology Demonstration Network); ATM Forum; Berkeley Multimedia Papers; Berkeley Multimedia Research Institute; CITR Broadband Services; CWI Multimedia Papers; Collaborative Systems Research Group; Digital Libraries (report archive); Digital Media Center (Singapore); Distributed Multimedia Computing Laboratory (UTex at Austin); Distributed Multimedia Informations Systems (GMD IPSI); EBONE Pan-European Multi-Protocol Backbone; Experimental Computer Systems Laboratory (SUNY Stony Brook); GMD Digital Media Lab; GMD Multimedia Forum; IDOMENEUS (multimedia research in Europe); Image Understanding Environment (multimedia research in Europe); Immersive Multimedia Interface Research Group (U of Colorado); Interactive Media Group (University of Massachusetts at Lowell); International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE); IRCAM; Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JMCC); Khoral Research (Khoros); Lancaster Multimedia Papers; Media Futures Program (SRI International); MET++ Toolkit (Univ. Zuerich); MIT Media Lab; Multimedia Communications Laboratory (Boston University); Multimedia Communications Research Lab (U of Ottawa); Multimedia Engineering Laboratory (Lux); Multimedia Integrated Conferencing for European Researchers (MICE); Multimedia publications archive; 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); Visual Information Retrieval Demo; VODAK MMDBMS; XMedia; ZGDV UIG: MME Toolkit

Conference Proceedings: NOSSDAV'95 Proceedings; Sync'95 - Proceedings IEEE Workshop on Synchronization; WWW5 - Fifth International World Wide Web Conference Proceedings; NOSSDAV'96 Proceedings

Conference Announcements & Call for Papers

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; Northern Multimedia Publications Archive; netlib (mathematical software); Networks; Objects; SIGGRAPH; SIGMOD; Telecom Archive; Visual Information Management Bibliography; Library of Congress

Newsgroup Archives: comp.multimedia ( US and Europe); comp.os.os2.multimedia; comp.sys.amiga.multimedia; alt.binaries.multimedia

Standards, Standard Proposals: List of Multimedia Standards; List of Online Standards

ATSC (Advanced Televsion Systems Committee)

CCITT (obsolete)

CIE

IEC

H.261

HyTime

Interactive Multimedia Association (IMA)

Internet (RFCs, drafts, standards, IETF) (multimedia-related RFCs)

IMA RFTs (Interactive Multimedia Association)

MHEG Information Site

MIME Types and MIME Proposal (RFC 1341) and MIME Overview

National Multimedia Association of America (NMAA)

Companies and Commercial Services: Multimedia Company Directory; Computer and Communication Companies; Commercial Sites on the Web; UK Multimedia Handbook

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

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IPPS'97 Workshop on Parallel Processing and Multimedia	April 1, 1997

CFP: The 2nd International Conference on Multimedia Information Systems	April 3-5, 1997

CFP: The Second Australian Document Computing Symposium	April 5, 1997

CFP: Sixth International World Wide Web Conference	April 7-12, 1997

CFP: Forum on Research and Technology, Advances in Digital Libraries, ADL '97	May 7-9, 1997

CFP: IEEE International conference on Multimedia Systems and Computing	June 3-6, 1997

CFP: Computer Animation'97	June 5-6, 1997

CFP: First International Workshop On Multimedia and Concurrency	June 24, 1997

CFP: CG International '97	June 24-28, 1997

CFP: IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services	July 8-10, 1997

CFP: Pacific Workshop on Distributed Multimedia Systems	July 24-25, 1997

CFP: Eurographics'97	Sept. 4-8, 1997

CFP: International Workshop on Synthetic-Natural Hybrid Coding and Three-Dimensional Imaging	Sept. 5-9, 1997

CFP: Virtual Systems and MultiMedia'97	Sept. 10-12, 1997

CFP: International Workshop on Audio-Visual Services over Packet Networks	Sept. 15-16, 1997

CFP: 3rd International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems	Sept. 25-27, 1997

CFP: Multimedia Terminals & Systems (SPIE)	Nov. 2-7, 1997

CFP: Multimedia Modelling	Nov. 16-19, 1997

CFP: Second International Conference on Visual Information Systems	Dec. 15-17, 1997

CFP: International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications	Feb. 9-11, 1998