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About ASTARTE MPEG Exporter™ 1.0.3
ASTARTE MPEG Exporter™ (AME) is an export component for QuickTime 2.5
which exports QuickTime movies as MPEG QuickTime movies. It can be used
from within any application which supports QuickTime export components
(e.g. MoviePlayer).
IMPORTANT NOTE:
ASTARTE MPEG Exporter is distributed as Shareware. Although commercial
distribution is restricted, you may freely give it to your friends. If you
continue using it, please pay the $20 fee. Use the enclosed Register program
to create a customized registration form, which you can mail or e-mail to
Kagi Shareware (whose address is given on the form).
ASTARTE MPEG Exporter registrations are handled by Kagi, a payment
processing service. To register, use the enclosed “Register” application to
create a customized form, which you then send to Kagi, whose address is
given on the form. The “How to Register” document gives detailed
step-by-step instructions.
Alternatively, you can register via credit card using the Kagi Online Order
Processing service. Their web site is <http://order.kagi.com/?1UM>.
Changes since version 1.0:
- Error -32767 does not occur any more if MP Library is not installed.
- 30 fps option works
System requirements:
- Apple PowerMacintosh (sorry no 68k machines)
- System 7.5 or later
- QuickTime 2.5 or later
- Thread Manager
- The application must have at least 3 MB of free RAM for AME to function
– Playback requires the Apple QuickTime™ MPEG Extension or MPEG decoding
hardware.
(You can obtain the QuickTime playback software from quicktime.apple.com)
Installation:
Just drag ASTARTE MPEG Exporter onto your System Folder. It will be copied
to the Extensions folder. Restart your computer; you should see the AME icon
on the screen during startup.
Usage:
- Open MoviePlayer
- Open any QuickTime movie with at least one video track.
- Select "Export…" from the "File" menu
- Select "Movie to MPEG" from the pop-up menu at the bottom of the dialog box,
specify a name for the new file and click OK.
- Choose either 30 fps (for NTSC) or 25 fps (for PAL) in the Options dialog that appears.
- Go to sleep or go do something else (encoding takes a while.)
Now you have a QuickTime movie on your hard disk which contains MPEG data.
You can play this back with any QuickTime-aware application. Don't forget to make
this movie "Make Movie Self Contained" (within "MoviePlayer") if you want to play
it back on a non-Apple computer.
Limitations:
- only 30 fps (for NTSC) and 25 fps (for PAL) are supported
- 384 pixels maximum width; 288 pixels maximum height. Larger movies are
scaled to that size.
- width and height will be changed to a multiple of 16 pixels, if they are not already.
- the data rate is always 176400 bytes/s (this corresponds to single-speed
CD-ROM playback)
- MIDI tracks will be ignored.
Technical Support:
Support for ASTARTE MPEG Exporter is available by e-mail at:
mpeg2@astarte.de or mpeg2@kagi.com.
© 1996-1997 ASTARTE GmbH, Weberstraße 1, D-76133 Karlsruhe, Germany
Portions ©MPEG Software Simulation Group