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- Short: FrameMachine drivers, TV on WB, Videos and more...
- Author: stefan@qdev.de (Stefan Robl)
- Uploader: stefan@qdev.de (Stefan Robl)
- Version: 1.25
- Type: hard/drivr
-
-
- Description
- -----------
- FMdriver is a new driver system for the FrameMachine
- video-card from electronic-design.
- It is a completely rewritten driver and it features
- the fastest possible access-speed to the hardware.
-
- It is fast enough to watch television on the Workbench
- (PPC strongly recommended!)
-
- The driver and the TV-program are included as 68k and
- PPC-versions to provide optimum performance.
-
- The FMdriver archive contains several programs:
-
- FMBaseConfig -- A config-program which allows the easy
- configuration of the Prism24-display and
- digi-sizes.
-
- FMTV -- This program allows you to use the
- FrameMachine for watching television on the
- WB (!!).
- It also allows to configure the Prism24 so that
- you can watch TV over it.
- You additionally have the option to make
- snapshots from the video and save it as image
- to disk.
-
- FMInit -- A small tool which allows to initialize the
- FrameMachine with user-definable settings.
- It is very useful to copy this tool into
- the WBStartup drawer to auto-init the FM
- on boot. as alternative, you can also use FMInit
- from Shell.
-
- FMRecorder -- Record small movies directly to your harddrives!
- This program is also able to playback the recorded
- anims and also allows to convert them into single
- images.
-
- FMRecord -- This shell-program allows to record FMMovie anims
- directly to harddisk (like FMRecorder does).
-
- FMRecordDec -- This shell-program is a converter from the FMMovie
- file format into single images (same funtionality
- as FMRecorder, but useful for script-processing).
-
- FMGrab -- A small shell-program which allows to grab images
- and save them to file.
-
- PLEASE READ THE DOCS FOR FURTHER INFORMATION!!!!!!
-
- Requirements
- ------------
- o FrameMachine video card, with or without Prism24 add-on
- o AmigaOS3.x (tested with 3.9)
- o About 2MB free RAM
- o 68020(+)
- o OCS, ECS or AGA (runs from 2 to 256 colors (!!) )
-
- > For full image quality and speed you should have running
- > with CGX V3/V4 or Piccasso96 in 15 Bit or more
-
- Additionally you need for the PPC-Versions:
-
- o a PPC 603e/604e PowerPC accelerator board
- o WarpOS V3 or better
-
-
- Distribution
- ------------
- FMdriver is GIFTWARE. If you use it,
- please send me a donation.
-
-
- History
- -------
-
- V1.00: (15.08.1999)
- ** first public release **
-
- V1.01 (20.08.1999)
- - fixed a small bug in the install-script
-
- V1.10 (29.08.1999)
- ** 2. public release **
- - added global support for non-gfx-board Amigas (!!)
- - added the programs FMInit, FMGrab, FMRecord,
- FMRecordDec and FMRecorder
-
- V1.12 (01.09.1999)
- ** 3. public release **
- - added the gadget "Filename style" to FMRecorder for
- more filename styles
- Thanks Lemmink, for this idea!
- - added a status requester (frames/fps) to FMRecorder
- for playback and recording
- - FMTV now closes the TVControl window, if you close
- with the right mouse button into the TV window
- - removed a "flicker-problem" in small resolutions
- (this caused also strange lines on some machines)
- Thanks to Rolf Wiessner and Ingo Nehls for reporting
- this problem!
- - added global support for the following image
- filetypes: PPM, PGM, IFF24, IFF8, IFF24c, IFF8c
- - The FMdriver was unable to work without a attached
- Prism24 board... sorry, hadn't tested this until
- Gernod Schomberg reported this... Thanks Gernod!!
-
- V.13 (16.01.2000)
- - added the option "NoBorder" to FMTV to have only
- the TV-picture on the WB
- - added menus to FMTV
- - introduced the double buffer mode of the FrameMachine
- (brings *major* speed increases!!)
- - added Brightness, Contrast, Gamma, Red, Green, Blue
- correction functions to FMTV
- - added the "GrabbingCenter" to FMTV! Now there it is
- really easy to grab images out of videos!
- - added a lot of shortcuts to FMTV
- - FMRecorder now has anim-controls (pause, seek, ...)
- to have much better access to the recorded video
- - FMRecorder profits of the double buffer mode of the
- FrameMachine very much, too!
-
- V1.14ß (21.12.2000)
- ** 4. public release **
- - made some smaller fixes over a long time period
- - now, my FrameMachine driver resides in a new
- library "newframemachine.library". Now there is no
- more need to use different versions for 68k and PPC!
-
- V1.25 (07.04.2001)
- ** 5. public release **
- => changed _a_ _lot_, so perhaps I forgot something to mention here:
- - cleaned up the newframemachine.library a bit
- - added a new feature: configurations, now you can save and
- recall several different configurations you can create with
- FMBaseConfig; added this feature to all FMdriver applications
- - the driver now always uses the last used config as default
- - FMBaseConfig is now localized
- - changed the structure of FMBaseConfig to have all the new
- possibilities which became available with configurations
- enabled
- - the video-window of FMBaseConfig and FMRecorder always snaps
- to the right border of the main window
- - FMTV now is able to grab a picture from the tvwindow,
- prefswindow and grabcenterwindow just by pressing <SPACE>
- Thanks to Rolf Wiessner for this idea!
- - fixed an enforcer hit of FMTV
- - FMTV didn't use the filename for the image basename specified
- by the filerequester in the grabbing center. fixed.
- Thanks again, Rolf!
- - from now on, every application in FMdriver will have the same
- version number; this will help to ensure what version is installed...
- - updated the complete guide documentation so that the new features
- are also covered... hmm... writing documentation really needs
- *very* much time... :(
- - FMRecorder is now also able to make time-lapse animations
- - almost rewrote the documentations
-
- Author
- ------
- Stefan Robl <stefan@qdev.de>
-
- More infos about ArtecScan, the QBox, FMdriver, CGXBlanker,
- DPMSManager, AVL and my other Projects?
-
- Just visit my Homepage: http://www.qdev.de
-
-
- Have fun!
-
-