COMPAT.TXT 4-17-96 Richard Kennerly What's Compatible with CU-SeeMe for Windows, System Requirements: * Your Windows PC hardware requirements * Your Windows Software 3.1, 3.11, Win '95, NT * Video capture cards (optional, for video send capability) * Winsock Stacks * Sound cards *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** Your Windows PC hardware requirements Basic Requirements: - Processor - MUST be 386SX or better. Recommended minimums: Video receive only: 386SX Video send & receive: 386DX Video receive w/Audio: 486SX Video send & receive w/Audio: 486DX - Windows 3.1 or higher running in Enhanced Mode. - A Windows Sockets compliant TCP/IP stack, known as Winsock. - A 256 color (8 bit) video driver at any resolution (640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, or higher). To send and receive video you'll also need: - Video capture board that supports Microsoft Video For Windows. - A video camera to plug into the video capture board. - Or, just a QuickCam parallel port camera. To send & receive audio you'll also need: - A Windows Sound board that conforms to the Windows MultiMedia Specification (Sound Blaster or better). Full Duplex audio is very desirable. - Speakers (or headphones) and a microphone. - An internet network connection or a modem with a minimum of 28.8kb/s. (Note: the White Pine commercial version will work with 14.4kb/s, see http://goliath.wpine.com/cu-seeme.html) *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** Your Windows Software - 3.1, 3.11, Win '95, NT Windows '95 - Like most 3.1 applications, CU-SeeMe will work with Win '95, although the free Cornell version is not 32-bit. Only a few users have reported problems with Windows '95. We expect to have a 32-bit version in the summer of 1996. Windows 3.1 - Yes. Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Yes. Windows NT - We've made no effort to make CU-SeeMe work with NT and have no plans to do so in the near future. A few users have managed to make it work though. OS/2 - We have no plans to support CU-SeeMe with OS/2. DOS - No. *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** 1. List of Video Capture Boards that work with CU-SEEMe 2. List of Video Capture Boards that DO NOT work with CU-SEEme 3. List of Untested Boards 4. List of Video Board Manufacturers contact addresses. 1. List of Video Capture Boards that work with CU-SEEMe for Windows: ============================================================================ Product: Motion Picture T260 Confirmed by: steve@niobium.demon.co.uk Made by: ? List Price: UK49.00 Comments: Only accepts PAL now, maybe NTSC soon. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Product: Cardcam PCMCIA TypeII Confirmed by: Michael Bradshaw Made by: Quadrant International List Price: $ 329 - $ 399 Comments: up to 15 fps, NTSC & PAL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Product: QuickCam Confirmed by: Rich Kennerly Made by: Connectix List Price: $ 99.00 Comments: You don't need a capture card with the Quickcam, it uses the parallel port. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Product: ProMovie Spectrum Confirmed by: Rich Kennerly Made by: Media Vision List Price: $ 100 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Product: ProMovie Studio !!! May NOT work; we're investigating Confirmed by: Rich Kennerly Made by: Media Vision List Price: $ 100 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Product: Video Spigot (Discontinued) 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: 349.46 at Computer City. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Product: Video Blaster SE100 (new model supposedly to replace FS200) Confirmed by: Gary Made by: Creative Labs Software incl:Aldus Photostyler, HSD Digital Morph, and Aymetrix Digital Video Producer List Price: $379 (Stree Price $225.00) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 (with the Dec'94 driver) List Price: unknown ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Product: Screen Machine Classic Confirmed by: Rich Kennerly Made by: unknown List Price: unknown Notes: You must install the Screen Machine version of Video for Windows. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Product: Reveal tv300 Confirmed by: jnguyen@wwa.com (Jack Nguyen), byron@in.net (Byron Thomason) arvell@bilbo.pic.net (arvell) Made by: Reveal (1-800-473-8325) List Price: $219-$275 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Product: Orchid Vidiola Pro/D Confirmed by: JPickle@aol.com Made by: Orchid Technology List Price: $599.54 at Computer City (MSRP: $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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Product: Targa Plus (16, 32, 64) Confirmed by: rcollins@antic.det.mun.ca Made by: TrueVision List Price: unknown (original costs=$1,500) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Product: Movie Blaster Confirmed by: mcarleer@ulb.ac.be (M. Carleer) Made by: unknown German company List Price: unknown ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Product: MediaPro+ Confirmed by: mcarleer@ulb.ac.be (M. Carleer) Made by: Rombo (Scottish company) List Price: unknown ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Product: Captivator Confirmed by: phenry@mailhost.primenet.com (Paul Henry) Made by: VideoLogic List Price: $349 (Street Price $89.90 - Tiger Software 1-800-888-4437) Notes: Bundled software - Video for Windows, MacroMedia Action ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Product: Movie Machine Pro Confirmed by: kvide@cardinal.fi (Christian Kvikant) Made by: Fast Electronic U.S. List Price: $999 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Product: Movie Machine II Confirmed by: jekone@zeelandnet.nl Made by: FAST Electronic U.S. List Price: $600 (with MPEG and M-JPEG $1200) Notes: Only with the 1.5 drivers under Windows 95. Change ";msvideo1=mm2_avi.drv" to "msvideo=mm2_avi.drv" and disable the line "msvideo=h55_cap.drv"(MJPG board) under the [Drivers] section in system.ini. Rename "h55_cap.drv" in the "c:\windows\system" directory. Resolution 160-120, color 8 Y, 256 or 64 graysale. Contact: jekone@zeelandnet.nl Config: Windows95 v4.00.950 CU-SeeMe w0.70b1 Diamond Viper PRO Video 2.08 (v3.11 drivers) in 1024x768/16bit mode Reflector: 4.0b2 at reflector.cardinal.fi (193.64.207.12) ============================================================================ 2. List of Video Capture boards that do NOT work with CU-SeeMe ============================================================================ DOES NOT WORK w/ CU-SEEME: Product: Intel Smart Video Recorder Pro Confirmed by: jasontm@mindspring.com (J. T. Montgomery) Made by: Intel Corp. Problems: unknown List Price: $449 at Computer City (MSRP: $570) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DOES NOT WORK w/ CU-SEEME: Product: Intel Smart Video Recorder PCVD1000 (not pro) Confirmed by: priapus@primenet.com (guy cooper) Made by: Intel Corp. Problems: unknown (CU-SeeMe reports "unsupported mode" on startup, I believe this is because the PCVD1000 does not support the 8-bit palletized mode required by CU-SeeMe.) List Price: Discontinued model (originally sold for $599 at CompUSA) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DOES NOT WORK w/ CU-SEEME: Product: Video Blaster RT300 Confirmed by: Rich Kennerly Made by: Creative Labs Problems: unknown List Price: $499.95 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOES NOT WORK w/ CU-SEEME: Product: SNAPplus VL Confirmed by: Dan Andersson Made by: Cardinal Technologies List Price: $695 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOES NOT WORK w/ CU-SEEME: Product: miroVideo DC1 TV Confirmed by: scr@advge.magwien.gv.at (Erich Schlosser) Made by: miro Computer Products List Price: $899 =========================================================================== 3. 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 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 VideoPacker Plus VIC Hi-Tech Corp $375 MovieWave Studio MultiWave Technology $350 ============================================================================ 4. List of Video Boards Manufacturers AITech International 47971 Fremont Blvd. Fremont, CA 94538 510-226-8960 Product: WaveWatcher TV-II Alpha Systems Labs Inc. 2361 McGaw Ave. Irvine, CA 92714 800-576-4275 Product: MegaMotion ATI Technologies 33 Commerce Valley Dr. East Thornhill, Ontario L3T 7N6 Canada 905-882-2600 Product: Video Basic, Video-IT! Aztech Labs Inc. 46707 Fremont Blvd. Fremont, CA 94538 800-886-8859 Product: Video Galaxy Gamma Cardinal Technologies 1827 Freedom Road Lancaster, PA 17601 717-293-3000 Product: SNAPplus VL Creative Labs 1901 McCarthy Blvd. Milpitas, CA 95035 800-998-5227 Product: Video Blaster FS200, RT300, MP400 Diamond Multimedia Systems 1130 E. Arques Ave. Sunnyvale, CA 94086 408-736-2000 Product: VideoStar Pro Digital Vision 270 Bridge St, Dedham, MA 02026 800-346-0090 Product: Computer Eyes/RT, /VLB FAST Electronic U.S. One Twin Dolphin Dr. Redwood City, CA 94065 415-802-0772 Product: Movie Machine Pro Hauppauge Computer Works 91 Cabot Ct. Hauppauge, NY 11788 800-443-1600 Product: Win/TV Cinema, Celebrity and HighQ In-Motion Technologies Inc. 1940 Colony St. Mountain View, CA 94043 415-968-6363 Product: Picture Perfect Pro Intel Corporation 2200 Mission College Blvd. P.O. Box 58119 Santa Clara, CA 95052-8119 800-538-3373 Product: Intel Smart Video Recorder Pro Logitech Inc. 6505 Kaiser Dr. Fremont, CA 94555 800-231-7717 Product: MovieMan Matrox Graphics Inc. 1055 St. Regis Blvd, Dorval, Quebec H9P 2T4 Canada. 800-361-1408 Product: Marvel, Marvel II miro Computer Products 955 Commercial St. Palo Alto, CA 94303 800-249-6476 Product: miroVIDEO DCI TV Orchid Technology 45365 Northport Loop West Fremont, CA 94538 800-767-2443 Product: Vidiola, Vidiola Pro/D UMAX Technology 3353 Gateway Blvd. Fremont, CA 94538 800-562-0311 Product: Maxmedia VR, MR Pro VideoLogic Inc. 1001 Bayhill Drive, Suite 310 San Bruno, Ca 94066 800-494-4938 Product: Captivator VIC Hi-Tech Corp. 2221 Rosecrans Ave. Suite 237 El Segundo, CA 90245 310-643-5193 Product: VideoPacker Plus ========================================================================== This list was, until recently, maintained by: ---- Albert Foo (albert@more.net) Missouri Research and Education Network University of Missouri - Columbia *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** 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 * Microsoft's Windows '95 tcpip client The following winsock stacks have had problems: * Beame and Whiteside - does not work at all. * LWP - Lan WorkPlace for DOS - Many people have had problems. We received the following report about an IMPORTANT configuration detail required for CU-SeeMe. In the NET.CFG file you can specify the number of sockets for TCP and UDP. You must change this number to 30 or less in order for CU-SeeMe to work: tcp_sockets 30 udp_sockets 30 raw_sockets 1 Let me know if this fix works for you. Rich Kennerly . *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** Sound Cards: The 'Internal Speaker Driver' will NOT work. Also, it NEVER will in the future for technical reasons. As far as I know, any sound card system will work with CU-SeeMe. We only use the low lever services and don't require anything special of the system. We use 8 kHz 8-bit format. However, full duplex audio is desireable so you can speak and listen simultaneously. The following cards are full duplex (according to reports) and have been reported to work with CU-SeeMe: * Pro Audio Spectrum * Gravis Ultrasound * Turtle Beach Tropez * Logitech MovieMan system * ASB 16 Audio System * Spectrum Office F/X More Info: Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 08:41:37 +0000 From: rz29@nz50.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Karl-Heinz Gasper) To: CU-SEEME-L@CORNELL.EDU Subject: List Of Full Duplex Sound Cards Gravis UltraSound Max --------------------- By Advanced Gravis Computer Technology 1790 Midway Lane Bellingham WA 98226 Main ( 604 ) 431-5020 Sales: 1-800-324-4084 Data: ( 604 ) 431-5927 Fax: ( 604 ) 431-5155 E-mail: AdvGravis@aol.com ASB 16 Audio System -------------------- AdLib Multimedia Inc. 580 Grande-Alle,est,suite 40 Quebec,Canada,G1R 2K2 Fax: ( 418 ) 522-4919 BBS: ( 418 ) 522-6099 Spectrum Office F/X -------------------- Tel: 1-800-667-0018 http://www.spectrumsignal.bc.ca/