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- VMPEG V1.7 Lite
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- Windows 3.1 MPEG player
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- by Stefan Eckart
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- August 1995
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- 1. Features
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- - full MPEG-1 video standard (ISO 11172-2): I,P,B frames of arbitrary size
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- - plays system layer (ISO 11172-1) and video compression layer files
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- - decodes layer II MPEG-1 audio in high quality stereo
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- - plays MPEG video / WAVE audio file pairs
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- - high speed: e.g. up to 33 frames/s on a Pentium 90 for a 352x240
- video only sequence
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- - display options: 4x4 ordered dither normal size (8 bit)
- 4x4 ordered dither double size (8 bit)
- grayscale (8 bit)
- true color (24 bit)
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- - arbitrary scaling of the video output
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- - supports DCI enabled graphics cards to achieve full-screen 24 bit
- real time display
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- - plays Video CDs
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- - MCI (Media Control Interface) provided
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- - generates stream information and decode speed statistics
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- - frame rate control: full speed (no rate control)
- synchronous (real-time)
- manual (rate set by user)
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- 2. Requirements
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- - '386 (or better) processor
- - 4 MB RAM (8 MB recommended)
- - VGA or Super VGA
- - Windows 3.1 or Windows 95
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- For video and audio playback of full resolution MPEG files a Pentium
- based PC and a PCI graphics card is required. True color full-screen
- display additionally requires a graphics card with color-space conversion
- and scaling hardware accessible via DCI (Display Control Interface).
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- The Win32s extensions are not required.
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- This release of VMPEG is a demonstration version. For this reason audio and
- Video CD playback are restricted to 60 seconds.
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- VMPEG is copyrighted software, (C) Stefan Eckart, 1995. You may use, copy and
- distribute this program solely for demonstration purposes, only in unmodified
- form and without charging money for it. Commercial use of this demonstration
- version is strictly prohibited.
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- Disclaimer: This program comes without any warranty. You are using it at your
- own risk.
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- 3. Installation
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- - create a temporary directory, e.g.
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- MD VMPEG.INS
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- - change to this directory
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- CD VMPEG.INS
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- - run the self-extracting zip-archive VMPEG17.EXE
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- ..\VMPEG17
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- (or use PKUNZIP ..\VMPEG17.ZIP if you have got
- the non self-extracting version)
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- - read VMPEG.HLP (by double-clicking it from within Windows); it contains
- additional information about the installation process
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- - run the setup program (from either DOS or Windows)
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- SETUP
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- Please refer to the Windows help file for additional information.
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