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- From: stabosz@brahms.udel.edu (Rae Stabosz)
- Subject: Help: New Media Graphics Super Video Overlay Card
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- Organization: University of Delaware
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 20:25:15 GMT
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- Help please. I'm trying to write the simplest Hello World program in
- TookBook v1.53 with MCI Extensions running under Multimedia Windows 3.1.
- I want to write a little script to wake up my Pioneer LD-V8000 videodisc player
- and play a disc using the New Media Graphics Super Video Windows Overlay card
- that I've got installed in my Zenith 386/20.
-
- When we installed the overlay card in Windows, we used Setup, Drivers
- option, and did a regular install off the floppy disk which contained
- the oemsetup.inf & the driver for the card, which is svwmci.drv. The
- svwmmi driver in not configurable from Setup, but from its own software
- configuration program, vconfig.exe. In vconfig we specified as a
- videodisc driver mcivpion.drv, an mci driver for the
- Pioneer which we obtained elsewhere. (We also tried specifying
- pnr4200.drv, the driver that came with the overlay card. Didn't
- seem right to specify a non-mci driver though if we wanted to use
- the mci hooks.) We set it for Source=laserdisc, com1 port, and 9600
- baud, all of which is as it should be.
-
- Under [mci] in system.ini we've got overlay=svwmci.drv, and
- videodisc=mcivpion.drv com1: 9600. The overlay entry was created
- by Setup, the videodisc entry we entered by hand due to having no
- oemsetup.inf for the Pioneer mci driver.
-
- I'm using the tbkMCI function to call various commands from the mci
- command set in ToolBook. I'm using sysERRORnumber after each mci
- command call to check errors. I can get it to say that it is opening
- the videodisc or the overlay, and it does wake up the videodisc some
- of the time. Most of the time though, immediately after I
-
- get tbkMCI("open videodisc shareable","")
-
- I get a message saying Operation failed. Improper laserdisc DLL for
- Source1 overlay.
-
- There's a video.ini file which has under [Sources] Source1=Laserdisc.
- And under [Source1] it has Signal-NTSC, Active=YES, Control=COM1:, and
- DLL=mcivpion.drv.
-
- Is anybody kind enough to look through all this & offer some advice?
- It should not be that hard to make the overlay board show the video.
- New Media Graphics is trying to help but they are not a lot of help.
-
- Rae
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