Chip 1999 September/CHIPCD_9_99.iso/software/shareware/hypercam/setup.exe/readme.txt

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HyperCam 1.50 Readme.txt file

HyperCam captures the action from your Windows 95 or NT screen and saves
it to AVI (Audio-Video Interleaved) movie file.  Your machine may run in
any color mode.  Sound from your system microphone is also recorded.

For best performance please set your machine in 8 bit color mode (256
colors).  We found out that in this configuration HyperCam can capture up
to 10 frames per second of 640x480 pictures on Pentium 133 machine.  You
may capture more if your capture area is smaller, or you have a faster
machine.  In 16 bit color mode it can do about 5 fps of 320x240 frames on
the same machine.  For 4 bit graphics MS Video does not provide a suitable
compressor, so the frames are written uncompressed.  This is also slow and
produces large AVI files.

Installation:
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To install HyperCam, please run SETUP.EXE program form the ZIP file that
you downloaded, or the floppy disk that you have received.

Program Status:
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HyperCam is a shareware product with the single user license price of
US $30. While unregistered, it will place a small "Unregistered HyperCam"
sign in the corner of the AVI files that you capture. To register your
copy of HyperCam, please start the program, click on the "License" tab,
then click on "Purchase License..." button. After we receive your payment,
we will send you a license (key) by email or paper mail, which you may
enter into the software to prevent HyperCam from placing the "Unregistered"
mark on the new movies that you record. Note: the "Unregistered" mark can
not be removed from movies that you recorded before registering your
copy of HyperCam.

Distribution:
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Distribution is permitted provided you follow these instructions: You are
free to make copies of the distribution archive (HYPERCAM.ZIP) and pass it
along to others for their evaluation provided that no modifications or
additions are made to the software, its documentation, or any associated
files, and it is not bundled in a distribution of any other software.

Usage:
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Select the area you want to capture, then select Start Rec.  button or
press a hot key.  You may press the same hot key to finish.  There is also
a "Pause/Resume" hot key and button.  You may pan (move the recorded area)
by holding e.g.  Shift key and moving the mouse.  Please click on each tab
in the HyperCam dialog and try to figure out what to do, or read the
detailed help file.

Updates:
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For newer versions of HyperCam please check Hyperionics WEB at:

    http://www.hyperionics.com/

or email the author, Greg Kochaniak, at [e-mail]

Thank you for using HyperCam!  Please do email me any comments and
suggestions for improvement you may have!

Greg Kochaniak
Hyperionics
3146 Chestnut St.
Murrysville, PA 15668, USA
Fax: [phone]


Release History:
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1999.07.05 Version 1.50
New features:
The ability to record mouse click sounds. You can enable this
option from "Other Options" tab, by setting the mouse click
volume to anything higher than 0.
The sounds itself are in small WAV files in HyperCam directory,
named with two numbers (sound sample and sampling rate), followed
by letter "d" for down mouse click, or "u" for mouse up. You
can replace these files with your own versions, if you don't
like ours, but they must be short and in their exact format.
Fixes:
If Windows is shut down while HyperCam is still recording, or
if it runs out of disk space, the AVI file will be closed
correctly.

1999.05.17 Version 1.40.00
HyperCam window now offers a new tab labeled "Other Options".
Currently it contains check boxes to enable/disable cursor
recording, and - new feature - add starbursts when mouse
buttons are clicks. The duration, size and color of these
starbursts can be also controlled on this tab.

Added new button, "Configure this Codec", to display the native
configuration dialog of the selected codec (provided by Codec
DLL itself).

HyperCam now remembers the last codec used, when exited and
restarted.

Added the "Record Sound" check box also to the "Sound" tab, to
avoid confusion created previously, when this box was only
available on "AVI File" tab.

Recording and Paused mode are now visually distinguished by
the thickness of the blinking frame, surrounding the recorded
area. Thicker frame means recording, thin (1 pixel) frame
means paused.

Fixed bug where sound would go out of sync with video after
several minutes, if the frame rate value did not divide 100
without a remainder.


1998.09.03 Version 1.34.00
Using Alt-Keyboard shortcuts in certain situations would hang
the program, fixed.

1998.07.09 Version 1.33.00
AVI file frame size must be a multiple of 4, or else strange
things happen in many players. Corrected the size entry functions
to round width and height up or down to a nearest multiple of 4.
Automation method: CaptureSingeFrame() did not work, fixed.

1998.06.02 Version 1.32.00
Prepared HyperCam for registrations with NetSales.
Added "Delete License" button on the "License" tab.
Fixed some small bugs.

1998.06.02 Version 1.31.00
Changed the visual feedback of different HyperCam states -
e.g. upon pause of recording, it will no longer display big
X across the recorded area, which sometimes was causing problems.
Instead, the HyperCam window and icon title is changed from
HyperCam - Recording to HyperCam - Paused, and the icon shape
in title bar and task bar button is changed. What if you hide
completely HyperCam window when recording? Well, it appears
in the task bar if you pause recording, and hides again if
you resume.

1998.02.20 Version 1.30.00
Added automation support to control HyperCam from OLE Automation
client programs, e.g. from Visual Basic. Added sound recording
at 8000 samples per second. Added "Show Flashing Rectangle..."
button to the "Screen Area" tab.

1997.12.04 Version 1.20.04 Released
First version compiled also for DEC Alpha/NT machines. Minor
fixes in license check and added -nox option (see help file).

1997.09.16 Version 1.20.02 Released
Minor fixes - help file page displayed on More... button press
of the About box was incorrect.
HyperCam license was re-saved on each startup causing minor
(barely, if at all) noticable delay.

1997.09.09 Version 1.20.01 Released
HyperCam would crash on "start recording" on Windows 95.
Fixed.

1997.09.08 Version 1.20.00 Released
Added single frame shot hot key, that operates in "Pause"
mode. Some minor bug fixes as well.

1997.05.08 Version 1.19 Released
Fixed two problems: starting recording in 256 color mode
would produce sometimes invalid AVI files (when, upon minimizing
HyperCam window for recording, another window with a different
palette would come to front and realize its palette). The other
problem: selecting AVI file name with Browse button would not
always work correctly.

1997.04.17 Version 1.18 Released
One more problem found and fixed - starting recording in
"paused" mode (F3 hot key) would cause problems. Fixed.

1997.04.15 Version 1.17 Released
Fixed a problem in licenses. Fixed also a bug where HyperCam
would crash after recording more than 2 minuts of video on
some Windows 95 systems. Fixed problem with saving video
compression quality setting.

1997.04.10 Version 1.16 Released
Added a number of command line options to auto-start recording
and override the defaults. See the help file for more.
Increased the sound buffers for high quality sound recording.
Fixed incorrect values of sound sampling rate displayed on
the Sound tab.

1997.04.03 Version 1.15 Released
I'm sorry, rel. 1.14 was not right. It recorded the sound with
wrong format information, and you could not switch between
high and low quality sound at all. It's all fixed now, honest!
Added a separate Sound tab, with even more sound parameters
to select from. Also (hopefully) fixed a rare problem when
HyperCam would produce invalid AVI files.

1997.04.01 Version 1.14 Released
Added a selection to set high quality sound when recording.
It's a check-box on AVI File tab. If checked on, HyperCam
records 16 bit sound samples at a rate of 22050 per second.
If checked off, 8 bit samples are recorded at 11025 samples
per second.

1997.03.10 Version 1.13 Released
Added a separate setting for playback frame rate on AVI File
tab, which may be now set different from recording rate. However,
if the playback is different from recording rate, you can not
record sound.
Separated resources into a separate CamRes.dll for easier
translation into foreign languages.

1997.01.17 Version 1.12 Released
Fixed: custom shapes of Windows 95 cursors were not captured
correctly - they were always dispalyed as standard cursors.
Controls inside HyperCam dialog are now disabled while recording
a movie.
You can now use Tab key to move the focus between all controls
of HyperCam dialog.
Fixed GDI resource leak on Windows 95 (could prevent you from
recording very long clips, or many short clips without exiting
HyperCam).

1997.01.08 Version 1.11 Released
Fixed a problem on Hebrew version of Windows 95 and on NT 3.51.

1997.01.08 Version 1.10 Released
This is the first full release of HyperCam. It was preceeded by a
number of "beta test" versions numbered 1.0 Beta nn.