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- TechSmith Screen Capture Codec (TSCC) installation notes
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- IMPORTANT NOTES:
- - Starting with Camtasia Player 2.0, the Camtasia Player will play AVI files
- which use the TSCC codec, even if the TSCC codec is not installed on the
- system. This gives you the option of distributing Camtasia Player 2.0 or
- later instead of distributing the TSCC codec. The Camtasia Player is a small,
- self-contained EXE designed to ensure high quality playback of AVI files. You
- may freely distribute the Camtasia Player.
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- - If your AVI files use the TSCC codec, and you do not wish to use Camtasia
- Player 2.0 (or later version), then you will need to distribute the TSCC codec
- in order for others to be able to view your video.
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- - Windows NT/2000/XP users must have administrator rights to install codecs.
- If you are distributing AVIs which use the TSCC codec and your users may not
- have administrator rights on these operating systems, then you have a
- few options:
- 1. Distribute the Camtasia Player 2.0 or later as mentioned above.
- 2. Use Camtasia Studio to convert your AVIs to Macromedia Flash SWF files.
- 3. Use Camtasia Studio to convert your AVIs to WMV files using the Windows
- Media Screen codec which is installed with current versions of Windows Media
- Player.
- 4. Use Camtasia Studio to convert your AVIs to use another video codec,
- for example the "Microsoft Video 1" codec.
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- - If you have additional questions about the TSCC codec, please email
- TechSmith Technical Support at support@techsmith.com
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- TSCC Installation with the TSCC.exe codec installer
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- The TSCC.exe is an install program that you can use to distribute the TSCC
- codec. It can be found in your Camtasia Studio installation directory. The
- TSCC.exe installer performs the following checks:
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- - Checks for tsccvid.dll in the Windows system directory
- - Checks that the tsccvid.dll is the most current version
- - Checks that the appropriate registry entries are correct
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- These checks happen very quickly. If the installer finds that the codec is
- already correctly installed, then it exits immediately. If one of these tests
- is not passed, then the installer will correctly install the codec. The codec
- installer needs to be run only once to install the codec. However, because of
- the checking at startup, there is no harm if it runs multiple times.
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- The TSCC.exe codec installer includes a /s "Silent Install" command line
- option. This will run the installer silently without prompting the user.
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- TSCC Installation by Internet Explorer Component Download
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- NOTE: Netscape browsers do not support this method.
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- One common method of distributing multimedia components is via the component
- download capability of Microsoft Internet Explorer (version 3.02 or higher).
- This method can be used to install the TechSmith Screen Capture Codec on
- target systems through an HTML page. The file required for this is
- TSCCINST.CAB, located in your Camtasia Studio install directory. Simply add
- the HTML snippet below to the desired page and modify the CODEBASE attribute
- if necessary.
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- <object width="0" height="0"
- classid="clsid:74F5614A-8A8C-43B4-8CC2-4B4EFAF4A6C5"
- CODEBASE="http://www.techsmith.com/codec/tsccinst.cab#Version=2,0,4,0">
- </object>
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- The code above will reference the codec installer from the TechSmith web
- site. You may place TSCCINST.CAB on your own web server and change the
- CODEBASE location accordingly to allow for faster installation (i.e. in an
- intranet environment). See the following URL for detailed information about
- Internet Component Download:
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/delivery/download/overview/entry.asp
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- NOTE: You must ensure that the codec installer completes before any
- TSCC-encoded media is referenced for playback. If this is not done the media
- may not show any video on the web page. It works best to embed the Windows
- Media Player directly via an OBJECT tag following the OBJECT tag for the codec
- installer. This ensures correct sequencing. If the player is referenced
- indirectly via a MIME type in an EMBED tag, IE will not wait for the codec
- install to complete before attempting to play the media.
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- When testing the codec installer on your web page, you may want to remove the
- TSCC install ActiveX control and the TSCC codec after it has been installed.
- To remove the TSCC installer ActiveX control, select the "Downloaded Program
- Files" folder in the Windows system folder (e.g. C:\Windows\Downloaded Program
- Files) using Windows Explorer. Then select "TSCCInstallClass" and choose
- "File->Remove Program File" in Windows Explorer. To remove the TSCC codec,
- use the Control Panel "Multimedia" applet to remove the codec from the list
- of Video Compression Codecs and then remove the file "tsccvid.dll" from the
- Windows system folder (e.g. "C:\Windows\System" on Windows 9x,
- "C:\Winnt\System32" on Windows NT/2000).
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