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- From: smp@solaria.mil.wi.us (Steven M. Palm)
- Subject: Re: Looking for AVI animations..
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- Organization: Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI
- References: <C128Eu.AJJ@rahul.net>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 22:40:53 GMT
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- bryanw@rahul.net (Bryan Woodworth) writes:
- : Still, they show the technology off fairly well. I am wondering how other
- : people have been able to view the AVIs. I am on a 386/25 machine, and the
- : anims are only shown in a 160x120 window, fairly small. Is this normal? I
- : have an ATI Graphics Ultra Plus, which supposedly has RLE decompression
- : onboard and is supposed to spiff up animation.
- :
- : I have noticed the fluidity of motion, and cannot say if it would be less
- : impressive without the ATI installed (I would rather not take it out..).
-
- I have a Trident card in my machine, and the anims aren't fluid. :( Then
- again, I have known for a while that Trident is pretty much on the bottom
- end of VGA card performance.
-
- But as for the size of the window, if you go into "Options" under the
- "Devices" menu of MediaPlayer, you are able to change options, like the
- picture size. You can also simply re-size the window using the sizing
- tool in the lower right corner of the window, just like other Windows
- windows. :)
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