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VidFun 1.2 by Applied Insights
Copyright 1995 Lawrence Gozum
All rights reserved.
Note: Update info at end of this doc.
SUMMARY:
VidFun is a value-added Multimedia viewer/image utility, designed for
ease-of-use, with SuperFAST, High Quality JPEG (JPG/JIF) support. It
boasts slideshows that play simultaneous audio, overlapped graphics
(w/ transitions that can be kept as background for video or animation),
video (w/ loops,variable speed/volume/size/position, variable delays,
background colors, centering ... and "spreadsheet" Slideshow editor with
cell-assigned pop-up menus, drag & drop slide reordering ... more!
With VidFun's FAST, enhanced color/gray printing, you are assured of the best
printout with a variety of paper and driver settings (no more color matching
problems) and your choice of dithering method.
It's multiple-window environment with flexible, pop-up Browser supports:
* AVI (Video for Windows) video
* BMP/DIB (Windows Bitmap)
* CAL (C.A.L.S.)
* CD Audio (Compact Disks)
* CMP (Lead "JPEG")
* FLI/FLC (Autodesk animation)
* JPG/JIF (JPEG/JFIF)
* KQP (Konica Quality Photo)
* MID (MIDI music)
* MOV (Apple Quicktime video)
* PCD (Kodak PhotoCD)
* PCT (Mac Pict)
* PCX/PCC (Zsoft)
* PIC (Pegasus "JPEG")
* RAS (Sun Raster)
* TGA (Targa)
* TIF (Aldus TIFF)
* WAV (Waveform audio)
other features include:
- virtual memory (eg., see those 18Mb PhotoCD images)
- global/separate RGB gamma correction
- RGB/CMY contrast and brightness
- RGB split & combine
- TWAIN support
- CD Audio player/slideshow
- edit previews for liberal experimentation
- AutoUndo
VidFun will also convert formats, sharpen, smooth, posterize, emboss,
tile (mosaic), resize, flip, rotate by 1 deg, reduce/promote colors, crop,
support clipboard DIB & DDB ... much more!
REQUIREMENTS:
Windows 3.1 running in Enhanced mode and VBRUN300.DLL.
Browse for "VBRUN" to search online services, the Internet or BBSs.
IMPORTANT:
Ensure that VBRUN300.DLL is in your \Windows\System directory before
running SETUP.EXE from Windows.
The following MUST be included.
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README 1ST THIS DOC
SETUP EXE
LG_SETUP DLL
VFUN EXE FILES IN VIDFUN DIRECTORY
VIDFUN EXE
README WRI
VIDFUN HLP
VIDFUN DLL FILES IN VIDFUN DIRECTORY (default)
LEAD VBX OR \WINDOWS\SYSTEM IF SPECIFIED DURING SETUP.
SUBEZ VBX
THREED VBX
VBCTL3D VBX
CMDIALOG VBX
MMEDIA DLL
LEAD40 DLL
PCDLIB DLL
JEWIN DLL
JPW DLL
XQUERYW DLL
VidFun 1.2 Update
1. Added SuperFAST, High Quality JPEG support:
* 185% to 300% faster
* fully-integrated Pegasus JPG i/o functions
* separate color and luminance compression settings
* optimized Huffman codes
* reads problematic JPEG files
2. Added proprietary support for KQP (Konica Quality Photo)
and PIC 'JPEG' (Pegasus Imaging Corp.) formats:
* superior image quality (virtually 'lossless')
* palette support for astounding quality on 256-color displays
3. Added FAST JPG previews.
4. Added Close All windows function.
5. Added CD Audio player.
6. Integrated CD Audio playback in slideshows.
7. BUGFIX: Full screen function caused an error; corrected.
8. Misc. minor bugfixes.
9. Added additional safeguards for 256-color modes.
WHAT'S NEXT ?
Since registered users, are provide with a key (ie., S/N) valid for all
1.x versions, we intend to update frequently and 'at will'. With your
support, updates will include more multimedia devices/features and file
formats, exotic image processing techniques, scanning processes (eg.,
descreen)... and eventually full hypermedia authoring. Coming soon ...
a Multimedia screensaver based on VidFun's AVL script format.