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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.
- *******************************
-
- 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.
-