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- VCD PowerPlayer
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- Video CD (VCD) and MPEG-1 Audio/Video Player
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- Introduction:
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- VCD PowerPlayer is a pure software VCD and MPEG-1 audio/video
- playing system. By using this software, Users can play VCD
- titles and MPEG-1 audio/video files without any additional
- hardware.
- VCD PowerPlayer can support CD-I, VCD 1.0, VCD 2.0, and normal
- MPEG-1 files. The frame size can be 320x240 (SIF), 384x240, 352x240,
- 352x252, 288x252, 160x120, etc. LinkMPEG supports MPEG-1 Audio Layer
- I&II audio formats. The sampling rate can be 48.0kHz, 44.1kHz, 32kHz,
- or 22kHz. The MPEG-1 sequence can be audio/video, audio only, video
- only, or intra-frame only (still picture). VCD PowerPlayer supports
- DCI v1.6, DirectDraw I, II, and III, WinG and GDI display interfaces.
- It follows Digital Video MCI and OpenMPEG 1.10 specifications. Now,
- it can run under Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 operating systems.
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- System Requirements:
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- 1. Pentium-90 PC compatible is required. Pentium-100 (or above) PC
- compatible is recommended.
- 2. 8- or 16-bit sound card is required.
- 3. 2 time speed CD player is required. 4 time speed CD player is
- recommended.
- 4. 256 (or above) color VGA card is required. VGA with DCI or
- DirectDraw support is recommended.
- 5. 8MB system memory is required.
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- Installation:
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- After starting up Windows 3.1 or Windows 95 operating system, insert
- VCD PowerPlayer diskette into the floppy drive. Then, execute
- a:\setup.exe (or b:\setup.exe) by double-clicking setup.exe file in
- drive 'a' (or 'b') under File-Manager program).
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- Execution:
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- After completely installing VCD PowerPlayer under Windows 3.1,
- the user can see PowerPlayer group icon under Program Manager. By
- double clicking PowerPlayer icon, the PowerPlayer group window is
- shown. By double clicking VCD PowerPlayer icon, this program is
- executed and the front panel is presented on the screen.
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- Under Windows 95 operating system, press START button in the lower-
- left corner first. Then, choose Program, PowerPlayer, and VCD PowerPlayer
- to start the program.
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- Configure VCD PowerPlayer:
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- Video DisplayíG
- DCI DCI (Display Control Interface) is a display control standard
- under Windows 3.1. If your VGA card supports DCI, please
- select this option.
- DDraw DirectDraw is a video control standard under Windows 95. If
- your VGA card supports DirectDraw, please select this option.
- WinG WinG is a fast displaying standard under Windows 3.1. By using
- WinG, the picture quality is worse and the performance is
- lower comparing to those of DCI or DirectDraw.
- GDI GDI is a display standard under Windows 3.1 and Windows 95
- which achieves the worst performance among the four methods.
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- Video ScreeníG
- x1 1x1 display size
- x2 2x2 display size
- Full Full-screen display size
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- Audio SettingíG
- Left On Open/Close left channel
- Right On Open/Close right channel
- Mute Play/Mute sound
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- Audio QualityíG
- 44K The highest quality (CD quality)
- 22K high quality (broadcast quality)
- 11K normal quality (telephone quality)
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- Q&A:
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- Q: While playing VCD under Windows 95, the speed is very slow and
- the audio is break into segments. Why?
- A: Most of these situations are caused by the conflict of IDE
- devices which connected to the same IDE bus. Your computer may
- be equipped with one IDE hard-disk and one IDE CD-ROM drive
- and these two devices are connected to the same IDE cable.
- There is a bug in Window 95 to handle such a situation. The
- CD-ROM driver provided by Windows 95 dumbly tries to issue
- seek command on every CD-ROM read request. It slows down the
- performance. There are two ways to solve this problem: one is
- to ask the technician to move one IDE device to another IDE
- cable; the other is to download 'iosupd.exe' from Microsoft
- ftp site and execute it. This is a patch program for the
- CD-ROM device driver.
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- Q: VCD PowerPlayer cannot play CD-I under Windows 95, why?
- A: Windows 95 Compact Disc File System (CDFS) does not support
- CD-I format such that LinkMPEG can not read the data on the
- CD-I disc.
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- Q: Why can't I execute VCD PowerPlayer under 16 color display mode?
- A: Most of VGA cards do not support DCI (DirectDraw) under 16
- color mode, and VCD PowerPlayer does not support GDI and WinG
- display under 16 color mode either. Please change display mode
- to 256 color or higher.
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- Q: VCD PowerPlayer can not use DCI (DirectDraw) under hi-color
- display mode or hi-resolution display mode, why?
- A: Under hi-color display mode or hi-resolution display mode, the
- display occupies most of the display memory (which is on the
- VGA card). Such that there is not enough display memory to be
- used while using DCI (DirectDraw) functions. Then, DCI
- (DirectDraw) is turned off. Please set it to low color display
- mode (e.g. 256 color) or low resolution mode (e.g. 800x600).
- Another way to solve this problem is to expand the display
- memory on your VGA card.
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