CompuServe Messages

I recently discovered why no drivers are being written for capture boards such as the Ill Pro or Targa… (No thanks to the respective companies who would be developing such drivers…) Curious thing… NT has no facility to capture video. What is most curious about this is that you would think with all its extensive networking capability TCP/IP et al that someone would have thought, "hmmm… gee I wonder if people are going to want to teleconference?" This much I do know. Win 95 does have some kind of interface which does allow for this… so the question is… if you have Win 95 running under NT can you use a capture board in that mode? Seems like a rather odd arrangement but at this point I'll settle for anything that works. NT will allow for a two monitor arrangement but I'm wondering how this would work running a framebuffer in Win 95 as the primary device… unless Win 95 is very different, it won't work… So if anyone has any insight on this or a perspective I'd be interested in hearing it. NT is going to have a hard time being accepted by the Multi-Media community not having the facility to transfer images into and back out of the system. Does anyone know if 3.52 will have this capability?. Needless to say I'm disappointed. Because this looks to be a major oversight but being an eternal optimist on these kinds of things, I have to think that this will be addressed somehow… as it really doesn't make any sense. I will post a query on MSL in the hopes that something is already in the works… I really don't understand though, why or how something this significant could have been overlooked. And I see more and more graphics applications and cards etc. being written for the Mac and PowerMac and I think what is that they know they we don't know? What are your thoughts… do you think this is important to the kind of work you do or not? I really don't see how multi-media applications can be written or produced without this facility. I think it will be very interesting to see how DPS handles this issue. Has anyone got a bead on that as well? Recently I saw an ad from DPS regarding the PAR and claiming NT compatibility… has anyone seen drivers for it? John