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- Xingit! Runtime Video Player
- Copyright (c) 1990-1994 Xing Technology Corporation
- Xingit! (tm) Version 1.1d (Rereleased June 19, 1994)
-
- Xing Technology Corporation
- 1540 West Branch Street
- Arroyo Grande, CA 93420
-
- Technical Support: 805-473-7431
- Fax: 805-473-0147
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-
- The file MPEGVU.EXE is a self-extracting ZIP file (PKZIP 2.04g) that
- contains the Xingit! Runtime Video Player for IBM 386/486 PC compatibles.
- Xing grants you the right to reproduce and distribute the Xingit! Runtime
- Video Player 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
- (you may change the file extension to .ZIP or .EXE as desired);
-
- 2 You may distribute it only in conjunction with and as part of a video
- clip--not as part of any operating system, application program, or
- on a stand-alone basis--and for the sole purpose of playing back such
- video clips.
-
- This README file introduces Xing Technology and its products and gives
- instructions for:
- - installing the Xingit! Runtime Video Player;
- - starting the Xingit! Runtime Video Player;
- - 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 products include:
- - Xingit! - real-time video capture board with encoding software,
- video and sound editors, and full-featured player;
- - XingCD - the first low-cost, full-screen MPEG compression software
- for desktop PCs;
- - 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.
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- INSTALLING THE XINGIT! RUNTIME VIDEO PLAYER
-
- 1 Open the Windows Program Manager and choose "Run" from the "File" menu.
-
- 2 Type "D:\SETUP"( if CD-ROM Disc 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.
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- STARTING THE XINGIT! RUNTIME VIDEO PLAYER
-
- The Xingit! Runtime Video Player includes a Windows MPEG Player (DMFW.EXE),
- a DOS MPEG Player (MPEG.EXE), and MCI and AVI drivers for video playback
- from compatible Windows applications.
-
- NOTE: This version of the Xingit! Runtime Video Player can not play MPEG
- files containing interframes ("B" and "P" frames) or interleaved
- MPEG audio data. Version 1.2 of Xingit! will support MPEG files
- containing interframes and interleaved MPEG audio.
-
- 4 Double-click the "Xingit Player" icon to start the program.
- The XingIt! player appears.
- You can now use the Xingit! 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
-
- To install the MCI and AVI drivers, run the XMCIAVI.EXE program that
- resides in the runtime player directory, and read the MCIDOC.WRI file
- for futher instructions.
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- BOOSTING VIDEO PLAYBACK PERFORMANCE
- The Xingit! Runtime Video 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! 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!
- 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! Player program, use the menu to select
- the Xing Video driver for Compaq
- select: View - Video Driver - Compaq AVGA.
-