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VideoteXt-0.5 released
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Wed Jun 21 13:12:23 1995
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 17:22:21 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
X-Mn-Key: announce
From: martin.buck@student.uni-ulm.de
Subject: VideoteXt-0.5 released
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Keywords: videotext teletext xview device driver module intv www
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Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
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VideoteXt V0.5 for Linux Copyright (c) 1994-95 Martin Buck
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This announcement is also available in HTML-format:
http://www.uni-ulm.de/~s_buck/VideoteXt.html
VideoteXt is a videotext-decoder for PCs running Linux (of course it also
runs with other Unices, but there are currently no drivers for
videotext-cards on these systems). It consists of a device-driver, an
interactice frontend using the X-Window-System and the XView-toolkit and a
commandline-oriented frontend intended mainly for non-interactive usage.
BTW, because there are about a dozen diferent services called videotext/
teletext: With videotext I mean the service broadcast by most european (and
probably also by others -- I don't know) TV stations where you can find
pages with news, TV programs and all kinds of more-or-less interesting
stuff.
The XView-version is TOP-text-capable and is able to receive all single
pages of a station in advance in a few minutes, so you don't have to wait
when you access these pages. Frequently used pages can be put into a
hotlist, which will be sought autmatically whenever you switch to a new
station. Of course, you can save and load videotext-pages; exporting them in
GIF-, PPM-, ASCII- and PostScript-format is also possible.
The commandline-version also offers TOP-text support and can output the
received pages in different ASCII- and binary-formats suitable for
post-processing (with AWK-scripts e.g.).
The device-driver is a loadable module. Starting with Linux 1.1.63 it can be
loaded without recompiling the kernel. Currently, the following interfaces
are supported:
o c't-Videotext-card: This one was published in the german
computer-magazine c't 11/91, p. 228 and c't 7/92, p. 176. Only the version
with a SAA5246 is supported. The SAA5244 is completely useless.
o Serial c't-card: The interface published in c't 7/92 can also be
connected to a serial port.
o VTX2000/VD3000: These are internal cards made by Wiegand
Datentechnik/Videodat Medien GmbH, Germany. The VTX2000 is a videotext-only
card, the VD3000 has an additional videodat-decoder (unsupported).
o SATCOM: This is an external VTX-decoder connected to a serial
port made by KDK Satcom, Germany.
o ELV PC-VT 7000: An external decoder with an ISA-bus-interface. It
was published in ELV journal 2/90, p. 54, 3/90, p. 54 and 4/90, p. 16. This
is untested, please tell me if it works for you.
o An interface developped by myself which makes it possible to connect the
videotext-chipset of a VCR to the parallel port of a PC.
I'm always interested in information about other interfaces -- probably I
can add support for them to my driver.
BTW, you can also use VideoteXt without a videotext-interface, e.g. together
with Mosaic or Netscape as a viewer for INtv's videotext
(http://www.ntu.ac.sg/intv/intv_www.html) in the WWW. Also, there are some
demo-pages in the archive that can be displayed without a interface.
Copyright/Copyleft
VideoteXt is free software and can be used and distributed under the term of
the GNU General Public License.
Here you can get VideoteXt
VideoteXt is available either directly from out WWW-server (see above) or
from the FTP-servers mentioned in the LSM-entry. On request, I can also send
it by mail.
Changes from version 0.4 to version 0.5
o It's finally there: usable handling of subpages
o PostScript-output
o Viewer for INtv's videotext-service
o Misc. improvements in the popup-windows (mainly the TOP-text-popup)
o New interfaces: KDK Satcom, ELV PCVT 7000
o Automatic recognition of station-changes
o Ability to display videotext-pages on TV
o Better error-checking
o Bugfixes
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Begin3
Title: videoteXt
Version: 0.5
Entered-date: 16JUN95
Description: Program to read, display & store videotext-pages. X-Window-
version with XView-GUI & commandline-version. Needs loadable
videotext-driver (included). Also included: showvt (VTX-
browser written by Wolfgang Greiner in tcl/tk); some example-
pages (viewable even without VTX-card). Also usable as viewer
for INtv's WWW-videotext service.
Keywords: videotext teletext xview device driver module intv www
Author: martin.buck@student.uni-ulm.de (Martin Buck)
Maintained-by: martin.buck@student.uni-ulm.de (Martin Buck)
Primary-site: ftp.gwdg.de /pub/linux/misc
videoteXt-0.5.tar.gz
Alternate-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/apps/video
Platform: Videotext-interface-card (internal & serial c't-compatible
cards, VTX2000/VD3000 by Wiegand Datentechnik/Videodat Medien
GmbH, KDK SATCOM cards, ELV PCVT 7000)
XView Version 3.2 (=Linux-3L5.1 or X11R6-version)
Copying-policy: GPL
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