AAA V V IIIII 000 3333 000 A A V V I 0 00 3 0 00 AAAAA V V I 0 0 0 33 0 0 0 A A V V I 00 0 3 00 0 A A V IIIII 000 3333 000 VERSION 0.98 PAR SECTOR ONE SUMMARY : - AUTHOR AND CONTACT - WHAT IS IT ? - TECHNICAL INFORMATIONS - HOW TO RUN ? - THE SHELL (AVI030s.PRG) v1.56 - SINCE RELEASE 0.91 - SINCE RELEASE 0.93 - SINCE RELEASE 0.95b - SINCE RELEASE 0.96a - SINCE RELEASE 0.97b * AUTHOR AND CONTACTS ===================== - AUTHOR : --------- . Concept / Design / Test par HELLO AND STGHOST / SECTOR ONE . AVI030.TTP programmation par STGHOST / SECTOR ONE . AVI030s.PRG programmation par STGHOST / SECTOR ONE interface et code GEM par HELLO / SECTOR ONE - CONTACTS : ---------- If you like this program and use it quite often, please send money to help in its our development...Don't be silly and keep Atari alive !!! It is moneyware: spread it freely but send money if you want improvements. If you want to get in touch : STGHOST / SECTOR ONE HUGUET Denis 104bis, Avenue du General de Gaulle 18500 Mehun sur Yevre FRANCE or HELLO / SECTOR ONE VILLENEUVE Christophe 20, rue du docteur Zamenhof 18000 Bourges FRANCE You can also join us by connecting to: sur NeST : Christophe Villeneuve @90:801/1.9 sur Atarinet : Christophe Villeneuve @51:902/1.9 sur BBS BRAZIL : (33) 01.44.67.08.44 (Christophe Villeneuve) sur BBS PARX : (33) 02.43.53.57.70 (Christophe Villeneuve) * WHAT IS IT ? ============== If you have seen or used a PC or a Mac, you have probably met multimedia movies. These are in fact slideshows of packed picture with some digital sound in most cases. There are 2 kinds of movies: AVI and MOV. This program offers you to play AVI files on a Falcon030 computer (with a speed card if you want an impressive result). This player supports most existing movies from 256 colours to 16 million colours...You have to know that a lot of different packmodes are available for pictures. Sound can also be stored in many ways. Of course, all these formats are not directly useable on Atari, so they have to be converted. In this player, quality is privileged without slowing too much the replay (except for big movies). It implies many things. First, no picture is jumped contrary to other players (even on PC) which try to give a false impression of speed. The sound benefits a format convrsion and a frequency conversion through the DSP. 16 million colours movies have the best possible quality. And there are also many possible options to control the replay. Be careful, movies bigger than 320*240 are played more slowly because of the screen size. * TECHNICAL INFORMATIONS ======================== - Runs on Falcon030 (and compatible) - Runs with any colour screen either in RGB or in VGA - Accept movies up to 640*480 resolution - Display in 65536 colours even in 640*480 (448 x 496 max for VGA) - Runs in TT-Ram (in theory) - Replay in "direct-from-disk" : accepts multimegabyte movies - Automatic resolution change - Accept external audio clocks (CD and DAT frequencies) - Runs with speeded Falcons (tested with Speed Resolution Card) - No conflicts with NVDI nor Videl Inside (1 and 2) * HOW TO RUN ? ============== This player is a TOS-with-parameters program, so it asks for a command line. There are 3 ways of avoiding it: 1. Install as an application for AVI files. Select the current window as default path and Directory to get full pathname. 2. Drag the program icon onto the desk. Then drag an AVI file icon and drop it on the program icon to play it. 3. Use the graphic shell (AVI030 Shell v1.40 or higher). If you prefer typing a command line, here comes the syntax. First you have to type the filename. If it is not in the current directory (active window), you have to type the path. If the extension is '.AVI', you may not type it. Examples: G:\ANIMS\TIMECOMM\TIME_COM plays the TIME_COM.AVI file in the G:\ANIMS\ directory ALIVE plays the ALIVE.AVI file in the current directory or in the player one if no window is opened. ANGELS.BBB plays the ANGELS.BBB file in the current directory It is possible t o precise another extension F:\TESTS\FANTA_PL. plays the FANTA_PL.AVI file in the F:\TESTS\ directory The '.' indicates that there's no extension It is forbidden to use a wildcard in the filename ('*' or '?') ! If you want to add parameters, add a space then a '-' followed by the parameters themselves. Possible options are: s : no sound d : no display o : no loop e1: external 44.1kHz clock (CD) e2: external 48kHz clock (DAT) n : no synchronization f : 'special' modus for 24 bits display (cvid end yvu9 movies only, no effect on other formats) Please avoid kicking both sound and display ! The 'n' option isn't really interesting if you keep the sound on. If you audio clock has 2 frequencies, select it before running the program. 'e1' and 'e2' options only indicates to the program which one is available on the DSP port. Examples: ALIVE.AVI plays ALIVE.AVI in current dir with both audio and video E:\ANGELS -d plays ANGELS.AVI in E:\ without video STINGRAY. -sn plays once STINGRAY in current dir without sound and without synchronization (turbo mode) PHANTAS2 -doe1 plays PHANTAS2.AVI in current dir without display, without looping but with external CD clock * THE SHELL (AVI030.PRG) =========== The Shell you permit of configured the file AVI030.TTP automatically at selected just : - The file AVI - The player - Active different selection throught the button His utilization maybe not more simple, you do to choose the option of you choice in selection the button propose. - COMPATILIBITE : --------------- The shell function : - As a simple programme (PRG) - Under Multitos - All gadget use the GEM - The utilization hide (HIDDEN) : ------------------------------- He is possible to effect a SLIDE SHOW at format AVI, that is to say you use the path where you stock the file AVI... Not put of name of file in the select, but to clique on CONFIRM. Next choose to PLAY, and the defile of the file AVI unwind. For change of file, he have to press on the bar SPACE. ATTENTION : he is possible to do a SLIDE SHOW with a change automatic at the condition of have choose at preliminary 'a play once'. * SINCE RELEASE 0.91 ==================== There are little new features since last release. The main one is the special modus added for cvid (Cinepak) movie format. It gives an higher speed for a slight loss of quality of colours. This modus is only available for 1 format, it has no effect on other ones. The sound now succesfully support 16 bits stereo sound. The 'cracking' bug of the 16 bits mono sound has been fixed. Some movies were causing bad bugs because of null pictures. It is now fixed but it still can bug if your avi file is incomplete ! Some movies were requiring a lot of ram whereas they don't need so much, this is now fixed. * SINCE RELEASE 0.93 ==================== A new set of video modes has been implemented in RGB and VGA. Some movies were requiring a lot of ram whereas they don't need so much, this is now fixed. 4 bits sound is recognized but not played, and IV32 movies are recognized but not displayed. * SINCE RELEASE 0.95b ===================== 'YVU9' format is now recognized. As it is a slow 24 bit format, I have included a fast (-f option) grey display. MRLE format also added. * SINCE RELEASE 0.96a ===================== Both full and partial palette-changes are now supported. * SINCE RELEASE 0.97b ===================== The 16 bits display is now OK. Both full and partial palette-changes are now supported 24 bits formats have been slightly speeded up again Some display bugs have been removed.