home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- *************************************************************************
- Xingit! MPEG Player Software Demo
- Copyright (c) 1990-1993 Xing Technology Corporation
- Xingit! (tm) Version 1.1 Released 3 November 1993
-
- Xing Technology Corporation
- 1540 West Branch Street
- Arroyo Grande, CA 93420
-
- Technical Support: 805-473-7431
- Fax: 805-473-0147
- ****************************************************************************
- INTRODUCING XING TECHNOLOGY
-
- Xing Technology Corporation, is an active participant in the international
- committee that established and defined the JPEG and MPEG standards. Xing
- develops, licenses, and applies data compression technology to multimedia
- communications solutions. The company's products enable OEM's, developers
- and end-users to integrate words, sound, still and moving pictures into
- cost-effective PC-based business, education and training tools.
-
- Xing Technology products include:
- - Xingit! real-time video capture board with encoding software,
- video and sound editors, and full-featured MPEG player;
- - Picture Prowler - a fast JPEG imagebase manager for Windows;
- - VTCompress - DOS and Windows application and libraries for
- coding/decoding and viewing JPEGs;
- - XingSound - real-time MPEG audio recorder, software encoder,
- and audio file player for Windows.
-
- Contact Xing or your Xing reseller for more information about these
- products.
-
- ################################################################################
- INSTALLING THE XINGIT! MPEG PLAYER DEMO
-
- 1 Open the Windows Program Manager and choose "Run" from the "File" menu.
-
- 2 Type "D:\SETUP"( if CD-Title on drive D) and click the "OK" button. MPEG
- Movie Player setup program start.
-
- 3 Add the pathname of the installation directory to your environment's
- PATH variable.
-
- ################################################################################
- STARTING THE XINGIT! MPEG PLAYER DEMO
-
- The Xingit! MPEG Player Demo includes a Windows MPEG Player (DMFW.EXE)
- and a DOS MPEG Player (MPEG.EXE).
-
- NOTE: Version 1.1 of the Xingit! MPEG Player can not play MPEG files
- containing interframes ("B" and "P" frames). Version 1.2 of Xingit!
- will support MPEG files containing interframes.
-
- 4 Double-click the "Xingit MPEG Player" icon to start the program.
- The XingIt! MPEG player appears.
- You can now use the Xingit! MPEG Player as described in the programs' on-line
- help.
-
- To run the DOS version of the player (MPEG.EXE), change to the directory
- that contains the MPEG.EXE program and issue the following command:
- > MPEG MPEGFILENAME.MPG
- Where "MPEGFILENAME" is the name of an MPEG video file.
- To see a complete usage description, issue the following command:
- > MPEG
-
- ################################################################################
- BOOSTING VIDEO PLAYBACK PERFORMANCE
- The Xingit! MPEG Player uses a Windows Bitmap driver to communicate with your
- PC's video hardware and quickly playback video data on your computer's monitor.
- This Device Independent Bitmap (DIB) driver is active by default, so the Player
- works with any Windows-compatible video hardware. To achieve even faster playback
- of video sequences you can disable the DIB driver and use one of Xingit's direct
- drivers. These high-speed drivers communicate directly with many popular video
- boards.
-
- To disable the Xingit! MPEG Player's DIB driver and select a direct driver:
- 1 Make sure "Use DIB" item is unchecked in the Player's "View" menu.
- 2 Choose an appropriate entry from the "Video Driver" item in the Player's
- "View" menu.
- If the player recognizes your PC's video driver, it displays your driver's
- name at the bottom of the "Video Driver" menu with the label "Detected."
- 3 Choose "Save Xingit! Preferences" from the "Preferences" menu.
-
- The following direct video drivers are currently provided with the Xingit!
- MPEG Player (actual compatibility has not been tested with all of the listed
- boards and is assumed):
- Reso- Col- Supported video board
- Video Driver lution: ors:
- ------------ ------- ---- ------------------------------
- ATI VGAWonder 640x480 256 ATI VGA Wonder
- Cirrus GD5422 [640x480] &
- Cirrus GD5424 [640x480] 640x480 256 Boca SXVGAX5 Super VGA
- Cirrus GD5422 [800x600] &
- Cirrus GD5424 [800x600] 800x600 256 Boca SXVGAX5 Super VGA
- Compaq AVGA 640x480 256 Compaq Advanced VGA
- Dell Jaws VGA
- S3 86C911/924 [256 Color] 640x480 256 Actix GraphicsENGINE
- Diamond Stealth VRAM
- Genoa WindowsVGA Model 8800/8860
- S3 86C801/805 [256 Color] 640x480 256 Actix GraphicsENGINE 32
- S3 86C801/805 [Hi Color] 640x480 64k Actix GraphicsENGINE 32
- Trident 8900 B/C 640x480 256
- TsengET4000/Weitek5186 640x480 256 Orchid Prodesigner IIs
- Everex Viewpoint
- Diamond Speedstar
- Cardinal VGA 700/732
- Boca Super VGA
- STB Powergraph/Powerview
- Video 7 HT-209D/216 Video7 VRAM II
- Video7 Win-VGA
- Video7 VGA 1024i
- Diamond Speedstar 24X
- Western Digital WD90Cxx 640x480 256 Compuadd Windows Accelerator
-
- If your PC's video driver does not appear in this list, you must use
- one of Xingit!'s device independent bitmap (DIB) driver.
-
- NOTE FOR USERS WITH COMPAQ Q-VISION VIDEO
- The Xing Video drivers embedded within MPEG320.DLL & MPEG160.DLL
- are compatible for operation with the Compaq Advanced VGA, with which
- QVision boards are backward compatible. But, you cannot use
- QVision Windows drivers with our video file. Rather you must ensure
- that the Advanced VGA driver is installed for the QVision adapter board.
-
- 1 The Windows video driver installed via the windows SETUP icon should
- first be changed to the CPQAVGA.DRV driver. If this cannot be done
- within the SETUP program of Windows, you must accomplish this by
- manually editing the SYSTEM.INI file:
- Look in SYSTEM.INI and locate the parameter
- display.drv=QVISION8.DRV
- and change it to
- display.drv=CPQAVGA.DRV
- Using the display driver disk supplied by COMPAQ, locate the file
- CPQAVGA.DRV and copy it to the \SYSTEM subdirectory of your \WINDOWS
-
- 2 Using the COMPAQ supplied utility program CPQSETUP.EXE it will be
- necessary to assure that the D/A converter (DAC) is selected to 8-bit
- operation.
-
- 3 Within the Xingit! MPEG Player Demo program, use the menu to select
- the Xing Video driver for Compaq
- select: View - Video Driver - Compaq AVGA.
-