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- Xingit! MPEG Player Software Demo
- Copyright (c) 1990-1993 Xing Technology Corporation
- Xingit! (tm) Version 1.1 Released 3 November 1993
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-
- The file MPEGVIEW.EXE installs Xing Technology, Inc.'s Xingit! MPEG Player
- Software Demo for IBM 386/486 PC compatibles. This entire self-extracting
- (PKZIP 2.04g) archive may be freely distributed under the following
- conditions:
- 1 You may distribute copies of the entire original archive file as
- archived by Xing Technology with its authorized authentication code.
- 2 You may change the file extension to .ZIP or .EXE as desired
-
- This README file introduces Xing Technology and its products and gives
- instructions for:
- - installing the Xingit! MPEG Player demo;
- - starting the Xingit! MPEG Player demo;
- - boosting video playback performance.
-
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- 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's Xingit! real-time video capture board is currently
- available for $499.00 (price subject to change) including encoding software,
- video and sound editors and the full-featured player. To order call
- 1-800-2-XINGIT (inside the U.S.) or contact Xing at:
-
- Xing Technology, Inc.
- 1540 West Branch Street
- Arroyo Grande, CA 93420 USA
- Phone: (805) 473-0145
- Fax: (805) 473-0147
- BBS: (805) 473-2680
-
- Other products available from Xing Technology include:
- - 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.
-
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- INSTALLING THE XINGIT! MPEG PLAYER DEMO
-
- The MPEGVIEW.EXE file is a self extracting ZIP file that contains the
- Xingit! MPEG Player Software Demo. To install the MPEG player:
- 1 Create a new directory on your hard drive and copy into it
- the MPEGVIEW.EXE file.
- 2 Run the MPEGVIEW.EXE program from a DOS command line or from within Windows:
- - to run it from a DOS command line, change to the directory that
- contains the MPEGVIEW.EXE program and type "MPEGVIEW";
- - to run it from within Windows, choose "Run" from the Program Manager's
- "File" menu; the "Run" dialog appears; enter in the "Command Line" field
- the full pathname of the MPEGVIEW.EXE program and click the "OK" button.
- When the MPEGVIEW.EXE program is finished, the installation directory should
- contain the following files:
- DMFW.EXE Windows MPEG Player Program
- MPEG.EXE DOS MPEG Player Program
- LOOKCHIP.DLL Video Board detector
- DDLL.LST data file used by DMFW
- MPEG160.DLL Video Playback Driver for small screen
- MPEG320.DLL Video Playback Driver for large screen
- MSND_MP2.DLL MPEG Sound Driver
- MSND_WAV.DLL WAV Sound Driver
- MCIMPEG.DRV Windows MCI (Xing Scalable MPEG) Driver
- XMPG_AVI.DRV Windows AVI (Xing Scalable MPEG) Driver
- XINGIT.HLP Windows Help file - Please Use it!
- README.TXT The file you are reading!
- OEMSETUP.INF required for installation of MCI and AVI drivers
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- 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). I-frame only MPEG
- files are available on Xing's BBS. Version 2.0 of Xingit! will
- support MPEG files containing interframes.
-
- As with any Windows application, you can start the DMFW.EXE program in a number
- of ways, e.g, from the File Manager or with the "Run" command in the Program
- Manager's "File" menu. It is easiest to create a new Program Manager item for
- the DMFW.EXE program:
- 1 Start Windows and open the Program Manager window;
- 2 Choose "New" from the Program Manager's "File" menu; the "New Program
- Object" window appears;
- 3 Select the "Program Item" radio button and click the "OK" button; the
- "Program Item Properties" window appears;
- 4 Enter "Xingit! MPEG Player" in the "Description" field, enter the full pathname
- of the DMFW.EXE program in the "Command Line" field, and enter the pathname of
- the directory that contains the DMFW.EXE program in the "Working Directory"
- field, and click the OK button; A new program item "Xingit! MPEG Player"
- appears.
- 5 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
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- 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.
-