H.1.3 Playing the Panasonic Laser Disks

A. Manual Operation

The Panasonic optical disk recorder/player and the Panasonic optical disk player may be played ``manually'' by using either the buttons on the front of each machine or the remote controllers. These buttons and the remote controller are labeled in English and are easily understood.

B. IDL Operation

1. Log onto sxt0 on any terminal
2. Enter IDL
3. Suppose you want to play frames 100 to 200 on the recorder for 10 repetitions at a rate of 90 frames per second. Here's the command: IDL> movie_pana,100,200,rate=10,num_repeat=3 
4. The general command is IDL> movie_pana,start_frame,stop_frame,device,device=device1,rate=rate, $IDL> num_repeat=num_repeat,backforth=backforthThe device parameters should be ignored because at the present time there is only one available device, which is the default. More information on this routine can be obtained with the command: IDL> doc_library,'movie_pana'