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- XingMPEG Player UPDATE
- Version 1.3p
- Xing Technology Corporation
- 1540 West Branch Street
- Arroyo Grande, CA 93420
-
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- The XingMPEG Player UPDATE version 1.3p updates the following versions
- of the XingMPEG Player to the latest released version (1.3):
- 1.0
- 1.01
- 1.02
- 1.03
- 1.1
- 1.2
- Before running the XingMPEG Player UPDATE, you must have first installed
- on your PC one of these versions of the XingMPEG Player.
-
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- To update your XingMPEG Player software:
-
- 1 Turn on your computer and start Windows.
- 2 Open the Windows 3.x Program Manager and choose the "Run" command
- from the "File" menu (under Windows 95, choose Run from the Start menu);
- the "Run" dialog appears.
- 3 Type "{path}\UPDATE"
- Where {path} is the pathname of the directory that contains the
- the XingMPEG Player UPDATE program; e.g., if the UPDATE program resides
- in c:\tmp\xmp13p, type "C:\TMP\XMP13P\UPDATE".
- 4 Click the "OK" button. The XingMPEG Player UPDATE program starts.
- 5 Click the Update button to update your XingMPEG Player software.
-
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- NOTES TO WINDOWS 95 USERS
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- REGARDING PLAYBACK OF CD-I TITLES - If you encounter problems playing
- CD-i titles (or Video CD titles opened with the "Open CD-i Movie"
- command) read the WN95_CDI.TXT file included on your XingMPEG Player
- installation disk.
-
- REGARDING VIDEO ACCELERATION AVAILABILITY - Under Windows95, DCI
- acceleration is unavailable with most Display Systems. If you are
- using such a display system, you must obtain a Direct Draw version
- of the XingMPEG Player and Direct Draw drivers for your PC's Display
- System to access video acceleration (including hardware stretching
- and color space conversion). Read the SUPPORT.TXT file included on
- your XingMPEG Player installation disk for more information.
-
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- RELEASE NOTES TO XingMPEG Player VERSION 1.3
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- XingMPEG Driver (XMDRIVER.DRV)
- - Embedded Media Objects now behave properly
- - Under Windows95, playback of WhiteBook (VideoCD) CDs is now
- supported via CDFS
- - Offscreen DCI is now available under Windows95 when using the
- Trident 9680 display system.
- - Audio buffer initialization routine has been modified to improve
- compatibility with audio cards that use IBM's MWAVE chip.
- - The MCI driver has been modified to support new clarifications
- to the OM1 (MCIMPEG) specification:
- - MCI_UPDATE_HDC is now supported
- - MCI SAMPLES PER SECOND is now supported
- - MCI STATUS_FRAME_RATE is now supported
- - MCI STATUS_AUDIO STREAMS now returns "0" when a video-only
- MPEG file is opened
- - MCI SET_AUDIO/VIDEO STREAMS is now supported
- - MCI SET_TIME_FORMAT now supports the BYTES (or "2") parameter
- - MCI SETAUDIO now supports LEFT and RIGHT parameters
- - MCI SEEK now supports OFFSET and FRAMEREF parameters
- - MCI CONFIGURE now returns proper error value
- - NOTIFY, SUPERCEDE, and SIGNAL fully supported
- - The XingMPEG Driver now returns "1.3" when responding to the MCI
- command "INFO VERSION".
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- RELEASE NOTES TO XingMPEG Player VERSION 1.2
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- XingMPEG Driver (XMDRIVER.DRV)
- - The XingMPEG Driver's configuration dialog contains a new audio
- sampling rate option "44kHz".
- - The XingMPEG Driver now supports a wider selection of CD-i titles.
- - The XingMPEG Driver now handles changes in frame resolution when
- playing multiple tracks from a CDi or Video CD title.
- - Handling of on-the-fly switch from DIB to Primary Surface DCI has
- been improved.
- - Handling of on-the-fly resizing of a non-DCI video window
- under Windows 95 has been improved.
- - The XingMPEG Driver now properly accesses primary DCI surfaces
- when opened as a child of an application's window.
- - Corrections have been made to the return values of several MCI
- commands.
- - The XingMPEG Driver now returns "1.2" when responding to the MCI
- command "INFO VERSION".
-
- XingMPEG Player (XMPLAYER.EXE)
- - The XingMPEG PlayerÆs Standard Bar and Advanced Bar display modes are
- now unavailable under Windows 95.
- - Clicking the "Step" buttons during playback now stops playback.
-
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- RELEASE NOTES TO XingMPEG Player VERSION 1.1
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- XingMPEG Driver (XMDRIVER.DRV)
- - Installation of the XingMPEG Driver now registers two MCI device TYPES:
- In addition to the "MpegVideo" device type, the device type "CDIVideo"
- is registered to provide direct access to CD-i and VideoCD titles.
- - The XingMPEG Driver's configuration dialog contains a new option
- "Crop to fit in standard window" that affects the driver's behavior
- when playing CD-i movies. When this option is selected, CD-i movies
- whose horizontal dimension is greater than 352 pixels are cropped
- to fit in the standard 352 pixel wide Video Display window.
- This feature is provided because some DCI-compliant Windows display
- systems suffer degraded video playback performance when video frames'
- horizontal dimension exceed 352 pixels. If you notice slower video
- playback when playing CD-i titles, try enabling this feature.
- - The XingMPEG Driver now returns "1.1" when responding to the MCI
- command "INFO VERSION".
-
- XingMPEG Player (XMPLAYER.EXE)
- - The XingMPEG PlayerÆs "File" menu now contains the entry "Open CD-i
- Movie". When this item is chosen, the XingMPEG Player automatically
- locates and opens all readable MPEG files on a mounted CD-i or VideoCD
- disk.
- - The File Information windowÆs "File Duration" field now displays the
- correct SMPTE formatted value; previously, calculation of this value
- failed to account for the loaded fileÆs frame rate and assumed
- 30 frames/second.
- - Clicking on the Track Bar now moves the current position indicator
- in increments equal to approximately 1/16 the total duration of
- the current file. In previous versions, clicking on the Track Bar
- moved the current position indicator in 1 second increments.
-
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- RELEASE NOTES TO XingMPEG Player VERSION 1.03
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- XingMPEG Driver (XMDRIVER.DRV)
- - The XingMPEG Driver now returns "1.03" when responding to the MCI
- command "INFO VERSION".
- - Eliminated an unnecessary reinstallation of the color pallette (in
- 256 color display mode) that occurred when the XingMPEG Driver switched
- between DCI and DIB during video playback.
-
- * Note Regarding Unreadable MPEG Files:
- The XingMPEG Player can play any MPEG file that conforms to the MPEG-1
- standard. Some MPEG files do not conform to this standard; e.g., they may
- have undergone data encryption that renders them readable only by the
- application that performed the encryption; or they may contain non-standard
- data. If you attempt to play such an MPEG file with the XingMPEG Player,
- an error message appears indicating that the file is unreadable.
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- RELEASE NOTES TO XingMPEG Player VERSION 1.02
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-
- XingMPEG Player (XMPLAYER.EXE)
- - The "Rate Control Off" warning is re-enabled whenever the driver's
- Rate Control setting is toggled.
-
- XingMPEG Driver (XMDRIVER.DRV)
- - The XingMPEG Driver now returns "1.02" when responding to the MCI
- command "INFO VERSION".
- - Corrected method for sending a null region to DCI providers;
- prior to this change, clipping the video window occasionally
- produced unwanted remnants of the DCI surface.
- - Eliminated an unnecessary yield on Show Window call; prior to this
- change, some applications (e.g., video screen savers) might destroy
- the video window prior to closing the MCI driver instance.
- - Improved handling of bad data in an MPEG stream; prior to this change,
- corrupted data in an MPEG stream could cause cessation of video playback.
- - Eliminated problem whereby the Performance diagnostic failed to play
- video in some 256-color display environments; this change also
- eliminated potential playback problem when an MPEG file is passed to
- XMPLAYER as a command line argument.
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- RELEASE NOTES TO XingMPEG Player VERSION 1.01
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-
- INSTALLATION
- - You can now deinstall XingMPEG Player components by running the
- SETUP program and deselecting items.
-
- XingMPEG Player (XMPLAYER.EXE)
- - Clicking the "Seek to Start" button during playback no longer stops
- playback.
- - When the Performance Diagnostic dialog is opened, the default "Drive"
- is now your PC's local fixed drive on which the XingMPEG Player
- is installed.
-
- XingMPEG Driver (XMDRIVER.DRV)
- - The XingMPEG Driver now automatically determines if your PC's
- Windows Sound System is capable of 16-bit audio playback; this
- feature insures proper audio playback on PC's equipped with
- 8-bit-only sound systems.
- - The XingMPEG Driver now returns "1.01" when responding to the MCI
- command "INFO VERSION".
-
- XingMPEG Saver (XMSAVER.SCR)
- - The Montage option has been removed from the XingMPEG Saver's
- setup dialog.