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- Microsoft(R) Product Support Services Application Note (Text File)
- WV1019: VIDEO 1.1A FOR WINDOWS(TM) RUN-TIME EDITION
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- Revision Date: 5/94
- 1 Disk Included
-
- The following information applies to Microsoft Video for Windows,
- version 1.1a.
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- | NetWare is a registered trademark of Novell, Inc. |
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- Introduction
- ------------
-
- This Application Note includes a floppy disk containing a run-time
- edition of Microsoft Video version 1.1a for Windows. This maintenance
- release provides the following improvements and corrections:
-
- - Simultaneous playback of two .AVI files has been improved.
-
- - Playback of loosely interleaved or noninterleaved files with
- NetWare(R) Video has been improved.
-
- - The compression algorithm has been changed to fully meet the
- official Interactive Multimedia Association's adaptive-
- differential-pulse-code-modulation (ADPCM) format
- specifications.
-
- - Performance of video playback has been improved, which corrects
- a problem that causes shaky playback.
-
- - The general protection (GP) fault problem has been corrected.
- This problem occurs when you click embedded Video 1.1 for
- Windows media objects in object linking and embedding (OLE) 2.0
- clients.
-
- - A slight memory leak that occurs with embedded objects has been
- corrected.
-
- Installing the Run-Time Edition of Video 1.1a for Windows
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-
- Do the following:
-
- 1. Insert the enclosed WV1019 disk in the appropriate floppy disk
- drive.
-
- 2. In Program Manager, choose Run from the File menu and type
-
- <drive>:\setup
-
- where <drive> is the floppy disk drive containing the WV1019 disk.
- Press ENTER.
-
- The Setup program will install the run-time edition of Video 1.1a for
- Windows.