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- VidFun is an easy-to-use, value-added Multimedia,
- viewer/player, slideshow, screensaver and image
- utility. "An impressive viewer"... featured in
- CompuServe Magazine, Feb 96. Featured in
- "Superior Shareware", Windows Magazine, Aug 96.
-
- It is optimized for BOTH Win31 and Win95 with
- long filenames, Explorer-style interface, 32-bit
- video and GDI (graphics), Drag & Drop ... plus,
- it can integrate as helper application for Web
- browsers (e.g., Netscape).
-
- It plays ALL popular, digital video formats found
- on the Internet: MPEG, AVI, MOV & FLC/FLI; plus
- (VideoCD) and audio formats (MIDI, WAV, CD music).
- Graphics support includes JPEG (Fast!), BMP/DIB,
- CMP, KQP/PIC, MAC, PhotoCD, PICT, PCX, PNG, PSD,
- RAS, TGA, TIF, WPG ... and Multipage DCX/TIF faxes.
-
- With Instant Slideshows, you can quickly make multi-
- track, Multimedia slideshows (or screensavers) mixing
- audio, video and graphics with 30+ effects; plus,
- variable loops, speed, volume, size, position,
- background, delays (or control of your presentation
- with it's slide controls)... all via "spreadsheet"
- editor, cell pop-ups and drag & drop reordering.
-
- Image processing includes gamma, sharpen, smooth,
- histogram analysis/enhancement, posterize, mosaic,
- color reduction/dithering, variable emboss, combine
- bitmaps, RGB/CMYK/HSV/HLS color spaces...
-
- Plus, color prints (w/ choice of dithering), format
- conversions (batch), TWAIN scans/grabs, edits (cut,
- paste, .01 deg. rotate, flip, crop, resize)...more!
-
-
- REQUIREMENTS:
-
- Minimum: 386,VGA,4Mb,Windows 3.1x,
- and VBRUN300.DLL if not included.
-
- Recommended:
- 486,SVGA,8Mb,sound card,Windows 95.
-
-
- OPTIONAL DRIVERS:
-
- MCI Drivers for Win31:
-
- a. VFW 1.1e (or later); search for "VFW" online.
- b. WAV and MIDI; included with sound cards.
-
- MCI Drivers for Win31 and Win95:
-
- c. FLI/FLC;search for "FLI" or "AAPLAY" online.
- d. Quicktime for Windows (http://www.apple.com)
- e. MPEG; VMPEG v1.7 (or later); ATI; SoftPEG ...
-
-
- VidFun 2.0 Update
-
- 1. Integrated 32-bit routines.
- * 32-bit video
- * 32-bit GUI
- * 32-bit GDI (graphics)
- * long filenames w/ multiple selection
- (absent in Win95 dialogs).
-
- 2. Win95, Explorer-style interface
- and file dialogs; works with Win31 too!
-
- 3. More MPEG support.
- * SoftPEG (e.g., Matrox)
- * Mediamatics (e.g., NEC, Diamond)
-
- 4. Enhanced slideshows/screensavers.
- * "jump to slide" control
- * "slide info" control
- * faster load/save
- * fast, cached 32-bit GDI (graphics)
- * random slide selection
- * random slide position
- * concurrent CD Audio playback
- * more capacity; > 1500 slides per file
- * chaining; pass control to other
- AVL files for modular scripts and
- unlimited slides!
-
- 5. JPEG fault-tolerance; auto-detects
- problematic files and adjusts accordingly;
- plus, support for Apple JPEG files with
- Mac Binary headers.
-
- 6. Border functions with Pad and Merge
- options (great for covering-up overscans
- in video grabs).
-
- 7. Enhanced detection and support for
- Quicktime PIC images (PICT format).
-
- 8. Fit-to-Window previews.
-
- 9. Some minor bugfixes.
-