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- Camtasia Player 2.0.3 - README file 30 October 2003
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- ~ TABLE OF CONTENTS ~
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- 1. Description
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- 2. System Requirements
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- 3. Setup and Configuration
- 3.1 Installation Instructions
- 3.2 Uninstall Instructions
- 3.3 How to make Camtasia Player your default AVI player
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- 4. How to use Camtasia Player
- 4.1 Command Line Parameters
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- 5. WHAT'S NEW
- 5.1 Version History
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- 6. Contact Information
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- 1. Description
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- Media Players have become large complicated applications that depend
- on the latest Windows features (e.g. the current version of DirectX).
- The common Media Players have also become a battleground for streaming
- formats, entertainment portals, advertising, etc. These players tend
- to be optimized for entertainment content and are often simply not
- appropriate for playing screen recordings. Camtasia Player is
- designed to guarantee simple high quality playback of your Camtasia
- Studio videos.
-
- Camtasia Player is a simple, standalone video player, optimized for
- playing screen recordings. Camtasia Player always plays movies at
- 100% of their original size so that they remain readable. It runs
- on any 32-bit Windows platform, with no dependencies on runtime
- libraries, OS version, or DirectX. The Player is a single .EXE file
- that does not need any setup, nor does it use the registry or any
- configuration files. Camtasia Player is designed to be as easy to
- use as possible to avoid support issues. Command line options are
- provided which allow Camtasia Player to be invoked in various ways
- from CD-ROMs, multimedia authoring tools, and scripting languages or
- batch files. The command line options are listed below in the "How
- to Use Camtasia Player" section.
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- Camtasia Player only plays AVI video files. Beginning with v2.0,
- Camtasia Player has built-in support for the TechSmith Screen Capture
- Codec (TSCC). This means that an AVI encoded with the TSCC codec
- will always play in the Camtasia Player, even if the TSCC codec is
- not installed on the system. Any other audio or video codecs
- required by the AVI file must be installed before Camtasia Player can
- play the movie. Camtasia Player does not setup any shell associations
- to become the default AVI player. However, this could be setup by an
- install program that you provide, or by an end user.
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- Please refer to CAMPLAYLICENSE.TXT for details about the software
- license agreement and about redistribution of Camtasia Player
- (CAMPLAY.EXE) with your Camtasia movies.
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- 2. System Requirements
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- In order to run Camtasia Player, your system must meet these
- specifications:
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- o Microsoft Windows 95, 98, Me, NT 4, 2000, XP or later version
- o Windows-compatible sound card and speakers (recommended)
- o About 360 KB of hard-disk space for program installation
- o Any audio or video codecs required by your AVI files must be
- installed in order to play the AVIs.
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- ** Note: Beginning with v2.0, Camtasia Player can play AVIs encoded
- with the TechSmith Screen Capture Codec (TSCC), even if the TSCC
- codec is not installed on the system. However, you may still wish
- to install the TSCC codec so that the AVIs will play in other media
- players. You can freely distribute and install the TSCC video
- codec using the TSCC.EXE codec installer, included with Camtasia
- Studio.
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- 3. Setup and Configuration
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- 3.1 Installation Instructions
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- The Camtasia Player distribution file contains the following
- files.
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- CAMPLAY.EXE Camtasia Player executable
- CAMPLAYLICENSE.TXT Software license description
- CAMPLAY.TXT This file
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- To install Camtasia Player, simply unzip the contents of
- the distribution file to a new folder.
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- 3.2 Uninstall Instructions
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- To uninstall Camtasia Player, simply delete the files listed
- above from your computer.
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- 3.3 How to make Camtasia Player your default AVI player
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- On Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP or later:
- 1. Right click on an AVI in Windows Explorer.
- 2. Choose "Open With..."
- 3. Click the "Other..." button.
- 4. Navigate to and select "CamPlay.exe"
- (e.g. C:\Program Files\TechSmith\Camtasia Studio\CamPlay.exe).
- 5. Check the "Always use this program to open these files"
- in the "Open With" dialog and then click OK.
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- On Windows 95, 98, and Windows NT 4:
- 1. In My Computer or Windows Explorer, click the View menu,
- and then click Options.
- 2. Click the "File Types" tab (or the "Folder Options" tab on
- Windows 98).
- 3. In the list of file types, select the file type for the
- .AVI file extension (e.g. "Video Clip" or "Movie Clip (AVI)").
- The settings for that file type are shown in the File Type
- Details box.
- 4. Click Edit.
- 5. In the Actions box, select Open.
- 6. Click Edit. You may want to note the current setting, in case
- you want to restore it. Then specify the full pathname for
- Camtasia Player followed by "/open"
- (e.g. "C:\Program Files\TechSmith\Camtasia Studio\CamPlay.exe" /open)
- and click OK.
- 7. In the Actions box, select Play.
- 8. Click Edit. You may want to note the current setting, in case
- you want to restore it. Then specify the full pathname for
- Camtasia Player followed by "/play"
- (e.g. "C:\Program Files\TechSmith\Camtasia Studio\CamPlay.exe" /play)
- and click OK.
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- 4. How to use Camtasia Player
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- 4.1 Command Line Parameters
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- When you launch Camtasia Player, by default it has a title bar,
- a menu bar, a tool bar, a status bar. You can customize those
- elements by specifying arguments on the command line when
- launching Camtasia Player. Here is the exact syntax for the
- command line arguments:
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- CAMPLAY [<options>] [<file>]
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- where <file> is an optional movie file name and <options> is an
- optional set of options among the following:
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- /A - Launches with "Always on top" option
- /BC RGB(255,0,255) - Set background color, default is black
- /D - Launches without allowing "Dragging" by the movie area
- /E - Exits after playing the movie
- /F - Launches in Full Screen Mode
- /M - Launches without a menu bar
- /MX - Launches with its window maximized
- /open - Open the specified movie (<file>) but does not play it
- /play - Immediately play the specified movie (<file>) [default]
- /R - Repeats the movie forever
- /S - Launches without a status bar
- /ST - Stay on last frame after playing
- /T - Launches without a title bar
- /TB - Launches without a tool bar
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- Notes:
- - For the /BC background color, you must supply a color argument
- with the syntax RGB(r,g,b) where r, g, and b are the red, green
- and blue components of the color. Valid values for r, g, and b
- are in the range 0 to 255. For example:
- RGB(0,0,0) = black
- RGB(255,255,255) = white
- RGB(0,0,255) = blue
- RGB(128,128,128) = dark gray
- The background color shows only when the movie that is playing
- does not fill the entire frame. For example, if the player is
- maximized while a 360x240 movie is playing, the background color
- will show.
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- Examples:
- CAMPLAY "clip1.avi"
- - play "clip1.avi" with the default user interface
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- CAMPLAY /E /F "my movie.avi"
- - play "my movie.avi" full screen and exit after playing
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- CAMPLAY /M "clip2.avi"
- - open "clip2.avi" without a menu bar (i.e. no File>Open menu
- option)
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- CAMPLAY /BC RGB(128,128,128) /F "clip3.avi"
- - play "clip3.avi" full screen and fill the background with dark
- gray if the movie does not fill the entire screen.
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- 5. WHAT'S NEW
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- 5.1 Version history
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- v2.0.3 Changed program logo and icon for consistent branding with
- Camtasia Studio 2.x.
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- v2.0.2 Changed program logo and icon for consistent branding with
- Camtasia Studio 1.x.
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- v2.0.1 Internal changes only. No visible changes to the player.
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- v2.0.0 The player can now play AVI files which use the TechSmith
- Screen Capture Codec (TSCC) even if the codec is not
- installed on the system.
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- Added /ST "Stay on last frame" option. When a movie
- finishes playing, instead of rewinding to the beginning of
- the movie, the player will stop on the last frame.
-
- Added /BC "Background color" option. This command line
- option requires a parameter of the form RGB(red,green,blue)
- which specifies the red, green, and blue components that
- make up the the background color. Valid values for the red,
- green, and blue components are in the range 0 to 255. The
- background color only shows when the movie is not big enough
- to fill the frame.
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- Added volume controls to the player.
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- Improved seeking performance. You can now seek while the
- movie is playing. You can now click anywhere on the slider
- to jump to that point in the movie. You can also use the
- left and right arrow keys for frame by frame navigation.
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- v1.0.4 Added /A "Always on top" option to keep player on top of
- other windows. The Play>Always on top option only appears
- if the /A command line option is used.
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- The player can now be moved around the screen by a click-n-
- drag inside the movie playback area. No dragging is allowed
- when the player is maximized or when in fullscreen mode. For
- backward compatibility, the /D option was added to disable
- this "Dragging" behavior in case it is not desired.
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- Added Exit toolbar button when the player is run with no
- menu (/M) and with no title bar (/T) to make it easier to
- close the player.
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- Fixed problem where player would forget its window position
- due to the sequence: maximize, enter fullscreen, exit full-
- screen, restore.
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- Fixed problem where player was not positioned correctly in
- the window z-order when switching out of fullscreen mode.
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- Fixed initial refresh problem on NT4 when /t /mx were used.
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- v1.0.3 Fixed problems with Camtasia Player not exiting or repeating
- at the the end of a movie (/E and /R command line options).
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- Fixed excessive flashing when playing a clip with palette
- shifts on a 256 color desktop with Camtasia Player.
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- Fixed problems with the player stopping unexpectedly when
- dragging the seek bar.
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- Added Play>Repeat menu option.
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- v1.0.2 Change the command line parsing to understand options
- without spaces.
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- v1.0.1 Added the Space bar as an accelerator key for Play/Pause.
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- v1.0.0 Initial release.
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- 6. Contact Information
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- TechSmith Corporation
- 2405 Woodlake Drive
- Okemos, MI 48864-5910
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- Voice : +1.517.381.2300
- Fax : +1.517.381.2336
- Web : www.techsmith.com
- E-mail : support@techsmith.com
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- (C) 2002 TechSmith Corporation. All Rights Reserved. TechSmith
- and Camtasia Studio are registered trademarks of TechSmith Corporation.
- Microsoft, Windows, and Windows NT are registered trademarks of
- Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of
- their respective holders.
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