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- Welcome to the Oracle Video Client! This component enables you to receive, decode,
- and display streaming audio and video from the Oracle Video Server on your Windows
- PC. You can also create your own applications using streaming audio and video. This
- file describes how to install and configure the client on your machine.
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- System Requirements
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- * Microsoft Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0
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- * At least a 80486 66MHz (or faster), with hardware MPEG decoding, or Pentium 90 MHz
- (or faster), with software MPEG decoding
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- * CD-ROM drive
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- * Display adapter card capable of at least 640x480 8-bit (256 colors) display
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- * VGA/SVGA monitor
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- * At least 32 MB RAM
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- * 28.8 Kbps or faster dial-up connection or direct network connection (32-bit TCP/IP
- with UDP and compatible Ethernet LAN card) to an Oracle Video Server
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- Installing the Oracle Video Client
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- Note: If an earlier version of the Oracle Video Client is installed on your machine,
- including 2.x versions or beta versions of 3.0, remove it before installing version
- 3.0.
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- To install the Oracle Video Client on your machine:
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- 1. Insert the Oracle Video Client 3.0 CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive.
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- 2. From the Windows Start Menu, choose Run.
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- 3. If your CD-ROM is your D: drive, type the following command in the Open box:
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- D:\SETUP.EXE
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- If your CD-ROM drive uses another drive letter, substitute that in place
- of D: here.
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- 4. Read the instructions and respond to the questions presented by the installer.
- When the installer requests a destination folder for the client, specify the
- folder in which your other Oracle products, if any, are installed. This is
- your ORACLE_HOME directory.
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- 5. At the Setup Configuration screen, select one of the available installation
- configurations:
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- Configuration Installs...
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- Typical All required and optional components of the Oracle Video Client:
- * All supporting software, including the Oracle Video Interface
- * All available client interfaces
- * Online documentation
- * Sample applications
- Recommended for development.
-
- Compact All required components of the Oracle Video Client:
- * All supporting software, including the Oracle Video Interface
- * All available client interfaces
- Recommended for run-time only installations.
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- Custom Components that you select from a list of available items
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- Note: The installer installs the Oracle Video Web Plug-in (or makes it available as
- a custom option) only if you have Netscape Navigator, Netscape Communicator, or
- Internet Explorer already installed. If you have both Netscape and Microsoft browsers
- installed, the plug-in is installed to both of them.
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- The Oracle Video Client makes use of third-party software products. The installer
- prompts you to install the following software products, if they are not already
- installed on your system:
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- Product Description Action
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- Microsoft Provides audio-visual display and playback Select YES
- ActiveMovie capabilities.
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- Iterated A video codec capable of playing video over low Select YES if you
- Systems bit-rate 28.8Kbps dial-up connections. plan to use a
- ClearVideo low bit-rate
- connection
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- Voxware Inc. An audio codec capable of playing audio over Select YES if you
- MetaSound low bit-rate 28.8Kbps dial-up connections. plan to use a
- low bit-rate
- connection
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- Adobe Acrobat An online document reader needed to read the Select YES
- Reader Acrobat PDF documents shipped with the Oracle
- Video Client.
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- Once the Oracle Video Client and third-party software is installed, the installer
- displays the Setup Complete screen. Check the Display Oracle Video Client Readme
- File check box to view Readme.txt, which contains late-breaking information not
- in the documentation, the location of release notes, help, online documentation
- files, and other useful references.
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