Index to Multimedia Information Sources


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Table of Contents
  • Current Events
  • Ratings and Guides
  • FAQs
  • Software
  • Media Delivery Services
  • Companies
  • Media Archives
  • Research
  • Conference Announcements
  • Bibliographies
  • Newsgroup Archives
  • Standards
  • The CD Family
  • Digital Galleries
  • Educational
  • Commercial Services
  • Magazines, Books and Journals
  • Publishers
  • Hypertext and Hypermedia
  • Miscellaneous Information
    Current Events
    PING
    Digital Information Infrastructure Guide (DIIG)
    National Information Infrastructure Proposal
    COMPTON Patent Reversed
    Ratings and Guides
    Acronym Server
    All Music Guide
    Cable Regulation Digest
    CWI Audio File Formats Guide
    Desktop Publishing Home Page
    Document Understanding and OCR
    Film and Video Resources Guide
    Multicast Backbone (MBONE) Technical Info
    MPC (Multimedia PC) Specification
    MIDI Home Page
    MPEG Howto
    Music Resources
    Open GL
    Satellite TV
    Seybold Report on Digital Media
    Billboard Chart
    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)
    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)
    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
    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
    CBC Radio Trial
    Info Post
    Internet Multicasting Service
    Internet Talk Radio (USA)
    Live Video Feeds
    Media on Demand (MBONE retransmission)
    Video File Browser
    Companies
    Apple
    Bell Atlantic
    Digital Equipment Corp.
    Hewlett-Packard
    IBM
    Kaleida Labs
    Pacific Bell
    Silicon Graphics Inc. (SiliconSurf)
    Sun Microsystems Inc. and Sunergy
    Wavefront Technologies
    Computer and Communication Companies
    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
    DVI Archive
    Folk Songs
    Fractal Movie 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
    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
    Digital Libraries (report archive)
    Digital Media Center (Singapore)
    EBONE Pan-European Multi-Protocol Backbone
    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)
    RARE Report (A Survey of Distributed Multimedia Research, Standards, Products)
    RARE Report (Network Access to Multimedia Information)
    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
    October 1994
    ACM Multimedia'94

    November 1994
    Multimedia Transport and Teleservices

    December 1994
    Digital Media and Publishing'94

    February 1995
    IS&T/SPIE Digital Video Compression: Algorithms and Technologies
    IS&T/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking

    April 1995
    Database Systems for Advanced Applications'95
    Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV '95)
    1995 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics

    May 1995
    CHI'95

    June 1995
    ED-MEDIA 95

    September 1995
    Very Large Data Bases - VLDB'95

    November 1995
    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
    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.publish.cdrom.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 Media Association)
    MIME Types and MIME Proposal (RFC 1341) and MIME Overview
    RTF
    SGML
    List of Multimedia Standards
    List of Online Standards
    The CD Family
    CD Formats - Overview
    CD-ROM Catalog
    CD-ROM (FAQ)
    CD-I (FAQ)
    Photo CD (Description)
    Photo CD (Kodak Archive)
    Walnut Creek CD-ROM archive
    Digital Galleries and Museums
    Art+Com
    Art History Images
    Australian National University
    Beckman Visualization Facility
    Classical Architecture of the Mediterranean Basin
    CinemaSpace
    Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers
    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
    Pixel Motion
    Rooms for Researcher
    San Diego Supercomputing Center
    Strange Interactions
    UCB Museum of Paleontology
    UNC Virtual Museum
    UnderWorld Industries' Web's Edge
    Venus and Milo
    Educational
    Digital Presentation Technologies Resource Center
    International Multimedia Resource Center (IMRC)
    ITTI Gravigs Project (computer graphics training material)
    Media Farm (IMRC)
    Usenet University - Globewide Network Academy (UU-GNA)
    Commercial Services
    CommerceNet
    Commercial Sites on the Web
    Magazines, Books and Journals
    Electronic Books (Project Gutenberg)
    Electronic Newsstand
    Electronic Journals
    Intertext
    IRIS On Line
    Mother Jones and searchable index
    IEEE Multimedia
    Multimedia-related Magazines
    Newsday
    PRESENCE journal
    Trincoll Journal
    WIRED Magazine and from Singapore
    Electronic Publications I
    Electronic Publications II
    Publishers
    Addison-Wesley
    Kluwer
    Meckler
    O'Reilly & Associates
    Prentice Hall
    Publishers' Catalogs Home Page
    University Presses
    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