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- Motion Pixels Release 2.71 Demonstration Software - 10 April 1996
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- C O N T E N T S
- ===============
-
- Documentation
- Web Site Information
- Fullscreen Playback Information
- Microsoft Windows NT Information
- Troubleshooting
- Development History
- Microsoft Windows 95 Information
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- Documentation
- =============
-
- The Motion Pixels Video Demonstration Disc includes product
- documentation files. You can view and print the documentation using the
- viewer/printer "Wordview" which is included on this CD-ROM. (If you
- have either Microsoft Word 6.0 or Microsoft Word 95, you may use those
- products.)
-
- NOTE: The Microsoft Word Viewer Version 6.0 is "freeware" from
- Microsoft.
-
- Printing the Documentation (Users of Windows 95)
-
- 1. Place the CD in the CD-ROM drive.
- 2. Double Click on "My Computer"
- 3. Double Click on the icon representing the CD-ROM drive.
- 4. Double Click on the MPIXELS folder.
- 5. Double Click on the WordView Icon
- 6. Wordview will show you a list of available files (see "Documentation
- Files" below)
-
- Printing the Documentation (Users of Windows 3.1 or Windows for
- Workgroups 3.11)
-
- 1. Place the CD in the CD-ROM drive.
- 2. Double Click on Main from Program Manager
- 3. Select File Manager and double click.
- 4. From File Manager select the CD-ROM icon near the top of the screen
- 5. Select the MPIXELS directory and double click.
- 6. Double Click on the WordView Icon
- 7. Wordview will show you a list of available files (see "Documentation
- Files" below)
-
-
- Documentation Files (in the MPIXELS directory)
-
- Capture.doc Video Capture documentation
- Compress.doc Information on Video Compression
- License.doc The Motion Pixels license agreement.
- Player.doc Information about the Motion Pixels player.
-
-
- WEB SITE INFORMATION
- ====================
-
- Motion Pixels is on the World Wide Web at http:\\www.motionpixels.com.
- Consult the Web Page for the latest information, evaluation software,
- and video clips.
-
-
- FULLSCREEN PLAYBACK INFORMATION
- ===============================
-
- If the video will not play fullscreen, load a VESA driver for your video
- adapter. If you do not have one, contact your video adapter
- manufacturer.
-
-
- MICROSOFT WINDOWS NT INFORMATION
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-
- The Motion Pixels player is not currently supported under Windows NT.
-
-
- MICROSOFT WINDOWS 95 INFORMATION
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-
- SCREEN SAVERS: We have observed that screen savers will interrupt video
- playback. To prevent this, disable your screen saver.
-
- VIDEO and NETWORKS: We have observed that network support can cause
- frequent system pauses. If your video playback pauses, disabling
- network support should correct this problem.
-
- TROUBLESHOOTING
- ===============
- DIAMOND DRIVER PROBLEM WITH S3 VIDEO CHIPSET. At the end of the MVI
- video clip, the computer will hang, or give an EMM386 error, or the next
- time you press the play button it will hang the computer. There is a
- bug in the Diamond Windows driver which can be solved in either two
- ways. Use the Number Nine S3 video drivers or upgrade Windows 3.x to
- Windows 95.
-
- INCOMPATIBLE RAM DAC. Some video chipsets and video BIOS's support 32k
- colors, but the RAM DAC does not. The video will play in the correct
- size but the colors will not be correct. The user must upgrade the RAM
- DAC or play the video in a pallettized mode, or upgrade the video card.
-
- VIDEO HANGS FOR NO REASON UNDER WINDOWS 95. An internal memory
- corruption has occurred in the video source. Microsoft has indicated
- that they have seen this problem before, and relate it to a hardware
- condition.
-
- INCOMPATIBLE HERCULES DRIVER. Hercules drivers for the Dynamite ET4000
- video chipset at 640x480 16 colors, will start the display memory at
- page four. No video will be seen. Upgrade the video drivers, or
- upgrade to Windows 95.
-
- INCOMPATIBLE ATI MACH64 BIOS. Trying to play the MVI video will result
- in an internal Windows error. The ATI Mach64 BIOS will generate a page
- fault setting the video mode in protected mode under Windows 3.x.
- Upgrade to Windows 95.
-
- I/O PORT CONFLICT UNDER WINDOWS. A sound driver under Windows has full
- control of the I/O port, and will not share it with any other VM
- machine. Disable the driver, usually the midi SAPI drivers or upgrade
- the driver to one that supports virtual I/O sharing.
-
- PAUSES DURING VIDEO PLAYBACK UNDER WINDOWS 95. Windows 95 has a
- resource sharing problem. Disable virtual memory under
- System/Performance/Virtual Memory.
-
- CANNOT LOCK MEMORY USING QEMM 7.04. Qemm DPMI has a bug for addressing
- physical memory above the DPMI's host memory. Upgrade Qemm to version
- 7.5, or Windows 95.
-
- VIDEO DOES NOT PLAY. Disable the 32bit disk and file access under
- virtual memory settings, or upgrade to Windows 95.
-
- AUDIO HAS PAUSES DURING PLAYBACK. If Motion Pixels is using 4bit ADPCM
- compressed sound, some sound blaster compatible cards are not true
- compatibles. Install a new sound card or play the video with no sound.
-
- VIDEO HANGS DURING MVI PLAYBACK when the Windows 95 screen saver kicks
- in. Disable the Windows 95 screen saver.
-
- USING MICOSOFT PLUS 95 with the show full window drag option, it leaves
- trails behind in Video For Windows. This is a Video for Windows
- problem. Disable show full window drags in Display/Plus.
-
-
- DEVELOPMENT HISTORY
- ===================
-
- Version 2.51 Enhancements
- -------------------------
- - Chroma keying for Video for Windows.
-
- -Keyboard control for the MVI player. 1-9, 5 being normal speed.
- Spacebar for video pause, and the + key for advancing in frame
- increments. and the W key as a rewind option.
-
- - Support for Vesa 2.0. Supporting 32bit page swapping and linear
- addressing.
-
- - Improved support for the system information on the MVI player.
-
- - AVI compression support for the WMVICOMP.EXE compressor.
-
- - Added option for no automatic resizing to the AVI codec.
-
- - Added option for no PCI ROM BIOS check for newer motherboards.
-
- - Chips and Technologies direct video card support.
-
- - Removed requirement for Win32s on AVI player only environment.
-
- - Batch compression capability for WMVICOMP.EXE
-
- - Error checking support to ensure a 64K Vesa window.
-
- - Added support for 640x480 and smaller.
-
-
- Version 2.14 beta Enhancements
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- - Added predicted frame doubling.
-
- - Chroma keying or green/blue screening.
-
-
- Version 2.13 beta Enhancements
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-
- - Wide field support for field compression, and playback.
-
- Support for compression resolutions upto 640x480.
-
- Negative gamma correction.
-
- - Improved color subsampling at 16:1:1, 8:1:1, 4:1:1, and 4:2:2.
-
- - Added display of the compression time for the MVI compressor.
-
- - Improved video control in the MVI compressor.
-
- - Allowed loading of AVI or MVI video from any player.
-