DVD VR(Video Recording) is a logic format adopted by most home consumer DVD recorder machines to record real-time TV and multimedia content on DVD+R/RW or DVDR/RW blank discs. However, DVD VR format can only be recognized and played by the DVD recorder itself. To achieve forward compatibility and playability, the recorder provides a function called disc finalizing process which closes every tra...

Digital video cassette recording (VCR) functionality enables quick and user friendly browsing of multimedia content, thus is highly desirable in streaming video application. In this paper, we propose a layer-based implementation scheme and a layer-based soft real-time scheduling algorithm for efficient implementation of scalable streaming video system to provide full VCR functionality over a dy...

With the proliferation of online multimedia content, the popularity of multimedia streaming technology, and the establishment of MPEG video coding standards, it is important to investigate how to efficiently implement an MPEG video streaming system. Digital video cassette recording (VCR) functionality (such as random access, fast forward, fast reverse, etc.) enables quick and user-friendly brow...

An inexpensive interface is described that performs direct transfer of digitized data from the digital audio processor and video cassette recorder based data acquisition system designed by Bezanilla (1985, Biophys. J., 47:437-441) to an IBM PC/XT microcomputer. The FORTRAN callable software that drives this interface is capable of controlling the video cassette recorder and starting data collec...

Thirty-four children, aged between three and nine years, presenting with nocturnal cough, were studied on successive nights using an automatic voice activated tape recorder system. Children with a family history of atopy coughed significantly more than children without such a family history. A wide variation in cough frequency was found both between and within subjects. No effects of treatment ...

Using a dark-field microscope equipped with a high-efficiency TV camera including a video tape-recorder, we recorded the sliding movement between outer doublet microtubules of the demembranated axonemes of sea-urchin (Pseudocentrotus depressus and Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus) sperm flagella by adding ATP and trypsin at 25 degrees C. The time and length of the sliding doublet microtubules from ax...