Index to Multimedia Information Sources

Thus, there are many broken links (even the maintainers e-mail addresses).

Mike Levin from Scala company has volunteered to maintain a copy of this page on their website and keep its link collection up to date.
Please visit Scalas Multimedia page for the updated multimedia information directory.

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: Simon.Gibbs@gmd.de
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); (German) Kodak Photo CD Forum; 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)