Video Extensions to X
Richard Petkiewicz
heard that there is a document describing some video extensions to
X, but have not been able to find it. If anyone can supply me with
more information about this, I would appreciate it.
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> I am interested in working with live Video in an X window. I have
> heard that there is a document describing some video extensions to
> X, but have not been able to find it. If anyone can supply me with
> more information about this, I would appreciate it.
In X11R3, check out the code in server/ddx/plx/.
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Sandeep Mehta
>I am interested in working with live Video in an X window. I have
>heard that there is a document describing some video extensions to
>X, but have not been able to find it. If anyone can supply me with
>more information about this, I would appreciate it.
>
This sounds like Todd Brunhoff's work on VEX, Video Extensions to X, at
Tektronix. You can find an article on VEX in the October issue of UNIX
Review magazine.
sandeep
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Bruce Schuchardt
and horrified by the default colors in the rgb database. The "pink"
color in particular looks like the flesh-tone of someone who has been
puking for several hours and would really rather get a bullet in the
head than go on living.
It seems to me that the vendors (e.g., Digital) who ship canned X systems
should be tuning the default, named colors to look as good as possible on
their machines. Or is it just the case that these colors look awful on
everyone's system and (in this case) Digital decided to go for compatibility?
What do you say? Does your "pink" look as bad as mine? Do you normally
whip up your own color table entries and ignore these default colors?
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Ken Lee
(Richard Petkiewicz) writes:
> I am interested in working with live Video in an X window. I have
> heard that there is a document describing some video extensions to
> X, but have not been able to find it. If anyone can supply me with
> more information about this, I would appreciate it.
At the last SIGGRAPH, there were several companies showing video
products for X, including Parallax, RGB Systems, and Tektronix. There
are several different X extensions to support video. Parallax and
Tektronix are proposing their versions as standards. You can probably
get drafts from those companies.
Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
Internet: kl...@decwrl.dec.com
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Bill Janssen
And is there any documentation on the library calls? They look
pretty obvious, but most tricky things do...
Bill
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John C Thomas
I read some place that these colors were supposed to have come from the
DEC-240. Anyway, the MIT-supplied values for named colors didn't look very
good on our SONY monitors, either. Therefore, as an X-server developer for my
employer, (Tektronix, Inc) it was my responsibility to do something about it.
Advised by our human factors folks that "standard" named colors exist, but
only for well-controlled color coordinate systems (like CIE, but not for RGB),
I sat down one evening with the handiest standard of subjective color names,
a box of 72 Crayola crayons. (Believe it or not, over 50% of the colors from
rgb.txt were represented.)
Using an X-client implementation of the TekColor model, I created the following
list of named colors. Appearance on your monitor may vary because of brand,
age, and video drive circuitry, but I think you will find it a better match
for the average monitor, than the original rgb.txt file from MIT.
John C Thomas
Tektronix, Inc.
Wilsonville, OR
j...@windex.TEK.COM
(503) 685-2876
*************************** cut here ******************************************
0 0 0 black
255 255 255 white
255 0 0 red
0 255 0 green
0 0 255 blue
0 255 255 cyan
255 0 211 magenta
255 255 0 yellow
255 138 0 orange
159 211 0 green yellow
0 255 159 spring green
0 138 255 sky blue
148 0 211 violet
255 0 148 violet red
105 105 105 dim gray
174 174 174 gray
174 174 174 grey
211 211 211 light grey
211 211 211 light gray
105 105 105 dim grey
199 21 133 medium violet red
114 33 188 blue violet
218 107 212 orchid
172 77 166 medium orchid
106 37 102 dark orchid
103 7 72 maroon
76 46 87 plum
146 62 112 thistle
171 197 255 light blue
61 98 208 medium blue
100 149 237 cornflower blue
0 0 142 navy blue
0 0 142 navy
12 62 99 midnight blue
72 209 204 turquoise
62 172 181 medium turquoise
29 111 117 dark turquoise
52 152 202 light steel blue
55 121 153 steel blue
126 125 160 cadet blue
117 134 190 slate blue
95 109 154 medium slate blue
51 62 99 dark slate blue
60 64 74 dark slate grey
60 64 74 dark slate gray
0 83 0 dark green
79 79 47 dark olive green
85 192 52 forest green
107 142 35 medium forest green
46 155 28 lime green
60 141 35 medium spring green
152 255 152 pale green
43 167 112 sea green
27 134 86 medium sea green
41 171 151 aquamarine
21 135 118 medium aquamarine
75 211 0 yellow green
254 197 68 gold
184 134 11 medium goldenrod
218 165 32 goldenrod
229 199 117 wheat
189 167 107 khaki
176 155 125 tan
178 143 86 sandy brown
142 107 35 sienna
103 67 0 brown
101 46 46 indian red
255 174 185 pink
248 137 117 coral
248 109 104 salmon
226 65 42 orange red
136 18 13 firebrick
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Tom Crockett
> It seems to me that the vendors (e.g., Digital) who ship canned X systems
> should be tuning the default, named colors to look as good as possible on
> their machines.
I'll second that! And if they wanted to be _really_ nice they could submit the
tuned rgb databases to MIT so they could be distributed with the MIT software.
Flames to /dev/null, please.
Tom Crockett
ICASE
Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering
M.S. 132C e-mail: t...@icase.edu
NASA Langley Research Center phone: (804) 864-2182
Hampton, VA 23665-5225
Jim Gettys
> > *Excerpts from xpert: 30-Oct-89 This is pink?? Bruce
Schuchardt@bloom-b (946)*
>
> > should be tuning the default, named colors to look as good as possible on
> > their machines.
>
submit the
> tuned rgb databases to MIT so they could be distributed with the MIT
software.
You are all right. We just updated the monitors recently and they have
quite different
characteristics than the previous (not that the database was all that
good for them, either).
I tried pink on the VR299 I recently hooked up to my PMAX and it is
pretty hideous.
We are working on fixing this.
Jim Gettys
Digital Equipment Corporation
Cambridge Research Laboratory