#Encyclopedias?
28-Oct-91 10:51:37
Sb: #14114-#Encyclopedias?
Fm: Larry D Burtness 70672,2402
To: Bob Michie 72447,2660
"The Presidents" uses the same movie technology as the "Mammals" CD from
national geographic, ('Presidents" is also a NG product), except that the
software for the movie production has been improved significantly in a few
different ways. The files are compressed much more than in "Mammals", to
as little as 40% of the size in Mammals. In addition, better control of
the color palette provides better picture quality on playback. In addition
to this, audio data is interleaved into the data file with the animation
video for playback of sychronized sound narrations. In Mammals, the
software was not advanced far enough to include sound. THe video in
Presidents is somewhat better than Mammals, and includes sound, but does
not match DVI video or video from videodisc in a window on screen such as
from an IBM M-Motion adapter. The playback of sound from Presidents can be
accomplished on any machine which meets the MPC standards for audio. The
video is MCGA, 320X200 pixel, 256 color.
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