Multimedia for 10.20

For 10.20:

This section covers the capabilities available from the Media Toolbox in the General Toolbox. On your Series 700 workstation or HP ENVIZEX or ENTRIA X station, you can use the Media Toolbox for:

Capturing screen images.
Viewing, editing, and printing images.
Playing, recording, and editing audio.

Capturing Screen Images

Capture allows you to take a picture of part of your display and save it as a file. This is also known as a "window dump."

You can use two methods to capture images from the screen:

The Capture control in the Media Toolbox. You can capture windows with or without borders, all of your screen, or part of your screen. You can save the screen image in one of several types of graphics files. Also, you can schedule the capture to occur immediately or select a future time for the image to be captured.
The Capture Screen... button in the SharedPrint/UX dialog, if SharedPrint/UX is enabled on your system. This button presents the same choices for what you capture; however, you print the image without saving it to a file. See “SharedPrint/UX” for details on SharedPrint/UX.

Viewing, Editing, and Printing Images

ImageView provides a quick way to view graphics, images, or screen captures in full color. Once the image is displayed, you can cut, copy, and paste sections, adjust the brightness and contrast, rotate the image, convert the file type, and save these changes.

While previously ImageView only displayed images, it now has the editing features of ImageView in HP MPower (an optional HP-UX 9.x product) plus Cut, Copy, and Paste features.

ImageView supports many types of image and graphics files, such as TIFF, JPEG, and XWD. Refer to the ImageView online help for a full list of file types.

For more information, see “Viewing Images” and “Printing an Image File”.

Viewing Images

To edit an image, you must first display it.

Display the File Manager window that contains the image you want to see.
You can use sample image files in the /opt/image/lib/help/C/graphics directory. These image files appear in ImageView online help.
Double click the image file's icon.
Or, drop the image file's icon on the Image control in the Media Toolbox.

Printing an Image File

To print images, you must have access to a SharedPrint/UX printer. For basic SharedPrint/UX information, see “SharedPrint/UX”.

For more information on SharedPrint/UX, refer to the SharedPrint/UX User and Administrator's Guide for HP-UX 10.0 (B1171-90124).

Playing, Recording, and Editing Audio

On most Series 700 workstations and certain X stations, you can play audio or record it from a variety of sources, such as a tape player or CD player. You can send the signal to a variety of outputs, such as your headphones, a tape recorder, or external speakers.

Recordings are stored as audio files. An audio file can be played, or it can be displayed as a waveform. You can edit the waveform. Editing the waveform is similar to editing a text file; you can add to the audio waveform, delete a segment, and move or copy segments.

Creating an audio file is different from adding audio annotation to a file. Refer to the HP VUE User's Guide for information on audio annotation.

Supported Workstations and X Stations

All HP 9000 Series workstations have digital audio hardware as standard equipment except for the Model 720, 730, and 750. In addition, HP ENVIZEX and HP ENTRIA X Stations equipped with an audio accessory kit can use the X station for playing audio via the HP Audio Subsystem.

Setting Up Audio

If you are using a workstation, it needs to be on a network that is running HP DCE/9000 software. For more information, see the online DCE/9000 Release Notes in the following files:

   /opt/dce/newconfig/RelNotes/HPDCE1.5RelNoteClient.ps

   /opt/dce/newconfig/RelNotes/HPDCE1.5RelNoteClient.txt

To set up a microphone, speakers, or other audio equipment, see the Using Your HP Workstation manual (A2615-90003) or the Audio Editor help (look under "Audio Editor Tasks").

To connect audio equipment to an ENVIZEX or ENTRIA X station, see the owner's manual for your X station.

Using the Audio Control Panel

The Audio Control panel controls playback volume and determines where you hear the audio. It also provides a way to stop playback or monitor a recording.

On the VUE Front Panel, the Audio Control is to the right of the Text Editor control. On the CDE Front Panel, the Audio Control is to the right of the Mailer Control. Click the Audio Control to start it. If an error message appears with a Help button, click the Help button for instructions. You can use these instructions to troubleshoot the problem.

Starting the Audio Editor

Display a File Manager window containing the file you want.
To use a sample audio file, use a file in the /opt/audio/sounds directory.
If you are using HP VUE, display the Media Toolbox.
Or, if you are using HP CDE, select the Digital_Media application group in the Application Manager.
Drop the icon for the audio file onto the Audio control.

Audio files require a large amount of storage space. Keep only the files that you need and delete them when you are finished using them to avoid running out of disk space.

Using Multimedia at the Command Line

To use the multimedia tools at the HP-UX command line, refer to the manpages. See Table 5-1 “HP MPower Manpages” for a list of manpages.

Table 5-1 HP MPower Manpages

Component	Manpage	Topic
Capture	`capture(1)`	Capture a screen image to a file
ImageView	`imageview(1)`	Start up ImageView
SharedPrint/UX	`sprint(1)`	Start up SharedPrint/UX
	`spadmin(1M)`	Start the SharedPrint/UX manager
	`setup_pr.sh(1M)`	Configure printers for SharedPrint/UX
Audio	`audio(5)`	Start the Audio Editor or the Audio Control Panel
	`aserver(1M)`	Control the audio server (Aserver)
	`asecure(1M)`	Change audio permissions
	`attributes(1)`	List an audio file's attributes
	`convert(1)`	Convert an audio file
	`send_sound(1)`	Play an audio file