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VidFun 1.5 by Applied Insights
Copyright 1995 Lawrence Gozum
All rights reserved.
Note: Update info at end of this doc.
VidFun is an easy-to-use, value-added Multimedia viewer/image utility.
It's multi-windows with flexible, pop-up Browser supports:
AVI video
BMP/DIB (Windows Bitmap)
CAL (G4 FAX)
CD Audio
CMP (Lead JPEG)
FLI/FLC animation
JPG/JIF (JPEG)
KQP (Konica Quality Photo)
MID (MIDI)
MOV (Quicktime)
PCD (PhotoCD)
PCT (Mac Pict)
PCX/PCC (Zsoft)
PIC (Pegasus JPEG)
PNG (Portable Network Graphics)
RAS (Sun)
TGA (Targa)
TIF (TIFF)
WAV audio
WPG (WordPerfect)
FEATURES:
* Win95 compatible, uninstalls in Win31
* Easy-to-use, right click pop-ups, adopts Win95 colors
* Drag & Drop, file Association (Explorer/FileMgr, Web Browsers ...)
* SuperFAST, High Quality JPEG support:
- separate color and luminance compression settings
- reads problem files
- proprietary CMP support for superior JPG quality
- proprietary KQP/PIC support for JPG with 256-color palettes
* Slideshows w/ simultaneous audio, overlapped graphics & video
- "spreadsheet" editor
- presentation controls (reverse, stop, advance slide)
- cell-assigned pop-up menus
- drag & drop reordering
- CD audio integration
- 30 transitions
- loops,variable speed/volume/size/position
- variable delays, background colors, centering ...
* Enhanced color prints w/ choice of dithering (avoids color matching)
* FAST previews, edit previews, AutoUndo, image histograms
* 1/100th deg. rotation
* variable-depth emboss effect
* smooth resizing (BiCubic interpolation)
* linear brightness equalization, histogram-based Contrast enhancement
* TWAIN scans, RGB gamma correction/contrast/brightness/split/combine
* virtual memory (eg., 18Mb PhotoCD images)
VidFun will also convert formats, sharpen, smooth, posterize, flip,
tile (mosaic), reduce/promote colors, crop, trim, cut/paste to clipboard
DIB/DDB ...more!
REQUIREMENTS:
Windows 95 (or Windows 3.1) and VBRUN300.DLL.
Browse for "VBRUN" to search online services, the Internet or BBSs.
OPTIONAL:
MCI Drivers for Win31:
a. Video for Windows (Search for "VFW" for availability)
b. WAV and MIDI (These come with your sound card)
MCI Drivers for Win31 and Win95:
c. FLI/FLC drivers (Search for "FLI", "AAPLAY" or "AAWIN" for availability)
d. Quicktime for Windows. (Visit Apple's WWW Page; http://www.apple.com)
IMPORTANT:
Ensure that VBRUN300.DLL is in your \Windows\System directory before
running SETUP.EXE from Windows.
Diamond Stealth64 users with bios version "U" may experience video
driver-related problems; upgrade your Windows driver to 964133.EXE
(self-extracting file) or later from Diamond (CIS users can GO DMNDONLINE).
The following MUST be included.
*******************************
README 1ST THIS DOC
SETUP EXE
LG_SETUP DLL
VFUN EXE APP DIR FILES
VIDFUN EXE
UNINSTAL EXE
README TXT
VIDFUN HLP APP EXTENSIONS/SYSTEM FILES
VIDFUN DLL
LEAD VBX
SUBEZ VBX
THREED VBX
VBCTL3D VBX
CMDIALOG VBX
MMEDIA DLL
LEAD51 DLL
LEADDIB DRV
PCDLIB DLL
JEWIN DLL
JPW DLL
XQUERYW DLL
VidFun 1.5 Update
1. Added RGB and Grayscale Histograms.
2. Added eight slideshow transitions + randomizer.
3. Added slideshow controls for presentations (reverse, stop, advance)
4. Added WPG (WordPerfect) load/save support for raster images/bitmaps.
5. BUGFIX: Video drivers that did not update Win colors scheme entries in
WIN.INI resulted in StartUp Error; corrected.
6. BUGFIX: Updating over previous versions of VidFun (v1.3 and below)
caused DLL conflicts and "function not found" errors; corrected.
WHAT'S NEXT ?
Since registered users, are provide with a key (ie., S/N) valid for all
1.x versions, we intend to update frequently and 'at will'. With your
support, updates will include more multimedia devices/features and file
formats, exotic image processing techniques, scanning processes (eg.,
descreen)... and eventually full hypermedia authoring.