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- Netscape Navigator** 2.02 for OS/2* Warp Plug-in Pack
-
- (You may wish to use a monospaced font, for improved readability)
-
- General Availability, December 16, 1996
- ==================================================
- Welcome to Netscape Navigator 2.02 for OS/2 Warp Plug-in Pack
- This Readme contains useful information that is required to install
- and use this product.
-
- The following information sources are also available from the IBM
- Software web page (http://www.software.ibm.com):
-
- * Netscape Navigator Handbook
- * Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
- * Release Notes
-
-
- NOTE:
-
- * To help you locate information in this README, you can use
- the Find option under the Edit menu of the OS/2 System Editor.
- You can print the file by dragging it to your printer object or by
- using the Print choice on the pop-up menu.
-
- CONTENTS
-
- 1.0 Hardware and Software Requirements
- 2.0 Installation Instructions
- 3.0 Function included in this release
- 4.0 Multimedia Plug-ins
- 5.0 Support for Windows 3.1*** Plug-ins
- 6.0 Plug-in API's and Toolkit
- 7.0 Known Problems
- 8.0 OS/2 Multimedia MPEG support
- 9.0 Trademarks
-
-
- 1.0 Software Requirements
- ==================================================
-
- Hardware Requirements:
-
- To install and use Netscape Navigator for OS/2 Warp, your work-
- station needs at least:
-
- * An Intel 486-based system or higher
- * VGA display (Super VGA with 256 colors or higher is recom-
- mended)
- * 12 MB of RAM (16 MB is recommended)
- * 8 MB free hard disk space (and 8 MB of temporary disk space)
- * Connection to the Internet (modem, Ethernet card, token ring,
- or ISDN)
-
- Software Requirements:
-
- * Netscape Navigator for OS/2 Warp installed
-
-
- 2.0 Installation Instructions
- =================================================
-
- Attention Beta1a Users Only:
- If you have not upgraded from the beta1a version of Netscape Navigator for
- OS/2, you must completely delete it before installing this product. After you
- locate the directory containing the beta1a release, delete all files and directories.
- Lastly, delete the Netscape folder before you begin installation of this product.
-
- Before you install the OS/2 Plug-In Pack, you should first ensure that you have
- removed the Beta2 version of the Netscape Navigator, if that version was installed
- One way to do this is switch to the Netscape Navigator Beta2 directory from which
- you performed the installation, enter INSTALL /A:D, and respond to the prompts. Then
- you can install the Netscape Navigator package, followed by the OS/2 Plug-In Pack.
-
- 1) To start the installation program, type:
-
- INSTALL
-
- 2) Follow the online instructions .
-
- 3) Restart your system.
-
- 4) The following system files are updated if you install support
- for Windows Plug-ins.
-
- Filename Warp 3.0 for Windows Warp 3.0 with Win-OS/2
- seamless.dll d:\OS2 d:\OS2
- vwin.sys d:\OS2\MDOS d:\OS2\MDOS
- winsmsg.dll d:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM d:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2\SYSTEM
- user.exe d:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM d:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2\SYSTEM
- users.scr d:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM (not applicable)
-
- Filename Warp 4.0
- seamless.dll d:\OS2
- vwin.sys (not replaced)
- winsmsg.dll d:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2\SYSTEM
- user.exe d:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2\SYSTEM
- users.scr (not applicable)
-
- NOTES:
-
- - If you are using the 4OS2 software package, the installation
- may not complete. Try double-clicking on the INSTALL.EXE from the
- folder representing the directory from which you wish to install.
-
- - The user.exe file(s) that are transferred when the 16-bit Plug-In
- support is installed is in English. This may create problem if
- this package is installed on a non-U.S. system.
-
- 3.0 Features and Functions
- =================================================
-
- "This release of Netscape Navigator offers you all the robustness of
- Netscape Navigator 2.02 and more". Highlights include:
-
- * Native OS/2 multimedia plug-ins
- * Support for Windows 3.1 plug-ins
- * OS/2 Multimedia MPEG support
-
-
- 4.0 Multimedia Plug-ins
- =================================================
-
- We have included native OS/2 version of Multimedia
- plug-ins in this offering.
-
- These native OS/2 Multimedia plug-ins provide support for
- multimedia MIME Types and file extensions such as MPEG,
- avi, voc, aiff, wav and midi.
-
- Some AVI files downloaded from the net do not always play.
- You need to download the "AnpoCodec" package and install the
- Windows AVI format codec. Go to http://www.shareware.com,
- and search for "anpocodec" in the OS/2 section. A QuickTime*****
- format codec for OS/2 is available from
- Practice Corporation at http://www.practice.xo.com.
-
- NOTES:
- * If you prefer to use helper applications you can
- remove the native OS/2 multimedia plug-ins by renaming
- the following OS/2 Multimedia plug-ins DLLs in the
- plug-ins subdirectory of the install directory:
-
- NPOS2AUD.DLL - all audio formats except MIDI
- NPOS2MID.DLL - MIDI audio
- NPOS2VID.DLL - video
-
- For example, rename NPOS2AUD.DLL to NPOS2AUD.SAV.
-
- * When files are downloaded via the native OS/2
- Multimedia plug-ins, they may be retained by the
- system even after you have exited Netscape Navigator.
- This may cause additional disk space to be consumed.
- The Multimedia Internet Manager, in the System
- Settings folder, allows you to remove some or all
- of these files, as well as change the directory
- which contains this multimedia data.
-
-
- 5.0 Support for Windows 3.1 Plug-ins
- ====================================================
-
- This support requires OS/2 Warp version 3 with fixpack 26,
- or OS/2 Warp version 4 to use this feature. If you need to
- install fixpack 26, you should remove Netscape Navigator
- for OS/2 and then reinstall it. This ensures that some
- OS/2 updates are made in the correct sequence.
-
- The following Windows 3.1 plug-ins have been tested:
-
- Plug-in Name Description
-
- Real Audio 2.0 and 3.0 streaming audio
- Shockwave for Director animation/streaming audio
- Sizzler animation/sound
-
- Some Windows 3.1 plug-ins require specific installation
- steps:
-
-
- Shockwave: The Shockwave installer should be run from
- File Manager or from the Program Manager Run
- line. After installation, exit Program
- Manager.
-
- Sizzler: On first use, Sizzler will display a test
- window for a long time, causing a Timeout
- message box to appear. Press Retry until the
- test window completes its test.
-
- NOTE: If you prefer not to use the Windows 3.1 plug-ins
- support, you should rename the file NPPROXY.DLL in the
- plug-ins subdirectory of the install directory to NPPROXY.SAV
-
-
- 6.0 Plug-in APIs and Toolkit
- ====================================================
-
- For developers wishing to develop native OS/2 Plug-ins for
- the Netscape Navigator for OS/2 Warp, we have available a
- Plug-in toolkit including header files, libraries and
- sample code for building OS/2 native plug-ins. To download
- the toolkit, go to the URL
- http://www.internet.ibm.com/browsers/netscape/warp
- and select OS/2 Plug-in Developers Kit.
-
-
- 7.0 Known problems
- ====================================================
- Some Windows 3.1 plug-ins require OLE 2.0. If you do not
- have OLE 2.0 for Win-OS2 you can install any 16-bit
- Windows 3.1 application that ships OLE 2.0 such as the
- Netscape Navigator for Windows 3.1.
-
- You may experience problems with the Digigami****
- install program. You must have OLE 2.0 installed to use
- the Digigame plug-ins.
-
- The Software MPEG plug-ins may cause your system to hang
- while attempting to close the movie player. You are,
- however, able to view the selected movie.
-
- Sometimes pages that contain plug-ins do not display
- correctly. This can be because the webmaster for the
- server did not correctly add the MIMETypes to the web
- server sotware. For example the Multimedia plug-ins
- support MIMETypes such as video/x-flc.
-
- Some Windows 3.1 plug-ins will not install under OS/2 as
- they check the version of Navigator for Windows that is
- installed. You may need to install Netscape Navigator
- for Windows 3.1 and then install the plug-ins.
-
- 8.0 OS/2 Multimedia MPEG Support
- ============================================================
-
- IBM's new MPEG support includes software MPEG video file
- playback without requiring special MPEG hardware.
-
-
- 8.1 Software Requirements
- -------------------------
-
- OS/2 Multimedia MPEG Support requires OS/2 Warp Version 3 or
- later. However, OS/2 Warp Version 3 systems also require
- OS/2 Warp Multimedia fixes available with this installation.
-
-
- 8.2 Recommended Hardware Configuration
- --------------------------------------
-
- A Pentium hardware configuration is required because
- software MPEG is very CPU intensive. Software MPEG can be
- used on a computer with a 486 microprocessor, but the video
- quality will be minimal.
-
- Software MPEG audio support is available but will work
- poorly on systems slower than a Pentium 90MHz.
-
- Hardware MPEG audio is supported with IBM MWAVE cards or
- RealMagic cards.
-
- If MPEG hardware is available, it will be used
- transparently. An updated RealMagic driver set is provided
- and installable if the hardware configuration includes the
- RealMagic drivers. These drivers should not be installed
- unless the hardware exists in the machine for which the
- drivers are being installed. For hardware video support,
- VSDOM1.INI must be installed in the \MMOS2 directory. Using
- the OS/2 Multimedia MPEG Support installation, select the
- MPEG card installed in the system.
-
- To play CD-i or Video CD content, a 2-speed CD-ROM is
- required. This CD-ROM must support long reads. Some OS/2
- CD-ROM drivers do not support the long reads that CD-i
- requires. CD-i content is not readable through the file
- system. Playing this content requires a dummy file named
- _VIDCDI.MPG. For polling CD-ROMs, playback quality will be
- very jerky.
-
-
- 8.3 Installation
- ----------------
-
- To install, go to a command line in a temporary directory
- and unpack the installation by typing PLUGPACK, then type
- INSTALL to start the installation.
-
- A new device will be added to MMPM2.INI and a corresponding
- OS/2 Multimedia MPEG Support device will be added to the
- Multimedia folder. It will support MPEG file-name
- extensions of .MPG, .VBS, and .DAT, as well as others.
-
- NOTE: Do NOT install the MPEG support on the Developer
- Connection #12 CD after you have installed this support
- from the OS/2 Plug-In Pack, as it as an earlier version
- of this support.
-
-
- 8.4 Backward Compatibility for MCI applications
- -----------------------------------------------
-
- A video MCD is provided for backward compatibility for
- existing applications which utilize the Media Control
- Interface (MCI). This means that the existing media
- player provided with OS/2 Multimedia can be used to
- play MPEG content.
-
-
- 8.5 MPEG Limitations
- --------------------
-
- - MPEG-2 Transport streams with buffered play will work only
- with 188 byte size buffers. All others are rejected.
-
- - Playback from content on slow CD-ROMS (less than 4X) will
- result in poor video playback quality.
-
-
- 8.6 Bulletin Board Support
- --------------------------
-
- Support is available on CompuServe via the OS/2 Developer
- Forum 1 (OS2DF1) in the Multimedia section and on the
- GAMEDEV forums. For easier detection, please put OS/2
- Multimedia MPEG Support in the subject header.
-
-
- 8.7 Configurations With Existing MPEG Hardware Support
- ------------------------------------------------------
-
- To configure OS/2 Multimedia MPEG Support to be used as the
- default hardware MPEG device, do the following:
-
- In the Multimedia Setup, on the Association page for the
- existing MPEG hardware, select the MPEG data type and remove
- all current extensions. Then, on the OS/2 Multimedia MPEG
- Support Association page, select the MPEG data type and add
- the following extensions: MPG, CDI, VBS, DAT, M1T, M2T,
- M2P.
-
- 8.8 Known Problems
- ------------------
-
- - Buffered play is not supported for MPEG-2 and single
- stream MPEG devices.
-
- - Sliders don't update with OS/2 multimedia applications on
- slower systems.
-
- - Poor video support for software playback with movies over
- a LAN.
-
- - Reel Magic Pro and Reel Magic will require FixPak 26 for
- OS/2 Warp Version 3 systems for hardware support in OS/2
- Multimedia MPEG Support. In addition, they might also need
- a new AMPMXMCD.DLL fix that will be available in a future
- FixPak. This fixes the problem of jerky video.
-
- - For OS/2 Warp Version 3 systems with S3 cards, if video
- problems occur with the OS/2 Multimedia MPEG Support
- installation, try renaming the YUV_LUT8.LUT file.
-
- - Some content from the Thinkpad CD Sampler have video
- corruption during playback of MPEG-2 Transport streams
- (files with 2_30 in filename).
-
- - Visual Circuits cards are supported but may have video
- corruption during playback. In this case, use the existing
- ReelTime device instead of OS/2 Multimedia MPEG Support.
-
- - Systems with installed MPEG hardware may have hangs
- switching between the existing MPEG device and OS/2
- Multimedia MPEG Support on Warp 4. The workaround is to
- setup the associations (defined in previous section) for
- OS/2 Multimedia MPEG Support to be the default MPEG device.
-
- - Problems may occur when opening MPEG-2 content with MPEG-1
- only hardware.
-
- 8.9 Multimedia Setup Page
- -------------------------
-
- If audio fails to play, try specifying the Software Only
- mode for audio for the OpenMPEG Video device in the
- Multimedia Setup object (in the System Setup folder).
- This change might also be necessary
- for systems contiaining Audiovation sound cards.
-
-
- 8.10 Video CD/CD-i Support
- --------------------------
-
- Video CD and CD-i content is supported with the Software
- Video CD icon in the Multimedia folder. Systems with MPEG
- hardware such as a Thinkpad 760 may already have a Video CD
- Player icon. This will allow Video CD through the existing
- MPEG device. If the Software Video CD icon is used on
- systems with MPEG hardware, then OS/2 Multimedia MPEG
- Support will attempt to play the content using hardware.
- Use the Software Video CD icon if the system has been
- customized with OS/2 Multimedia MPEG Support as the default
- MPEG device.
-
-
- 8.11 Future Hardware Support
- ----------------------------
-
- OS/2 Multimedia MPEG Support will install hooks for the
- following hardware devices:
-
- * Thinkpad 760CD MPEG
- * Thinkpad 760ED MPEG
- * Sigma Designs RealMagic*****
- * Sigma Designs RealMagic Pro
- * Visual Circuits ReelTime
-
- If MPEG hardware is installed later, the VSDOM1.INI file
- must be created by executing the MKVSDINI.CMD file in the
- \MMOS2 directory. For new MPEG hardware not in the above
- list, modify the MKVSDINI.CMD file with the appropriate PDD
- and VSD DLL. The PDD and VSD will be defined in the
- MMPM2.INI. For the PDD do not include the $ character.
-
- In addition, if the DSP requires special loading, use the
- appropriate numbers for the .dsp field to signify the
- following 1 Load DSP Only 2 Load With MPEG Stream Info.
-
- Good luck and enjoy. MPEG is an exciting technology to
- which IBM is very much committed.
-
-
- 9.0 Trademarks
- ================================================
-
- The following terms, denoted by an asterisk (*) in this
- READ.ME file, are trademarks of the IBM Corporation in the
- United States or other countries:
-
- o IBM
- o OS/2
- o ThinkPad
-
- The following terms, denoted by a double asterisk (**) in
- this READ.ME file, are trademarks of Netscape
- Communications Corporation:
-
- o Netscape
- o Netscape Navigator
-
- The following terms, denoted by a "***" in
- this READ.ME file, are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
-
- o Windows
- o Windows 3.1
- o Microsoft
-
- The following terms, denoted by a "****" in
- this READ.ME file, are trademarks of CineWEB Corporation.
-
- o Digigami
-
- The following term, denoted by a "*****" in
- this READ.ME file, is a trademark of Apple Corp.
-
- o QuickTime
-
- The following term, denoted by a "******"(!) in
- this READ.ME file, is a trademark of Sigma Designs, Inc.
-
- o RealMagic
-
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-
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- 1995-1996. All rights reserved.
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