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- VidFun 1.6 by Applied Insights
- Copyright 1995 Lawrence Gozum
- All rights reserved.
-
- Note: Update info at end of this doc.
-
- VidFun is an easy-to-use, value-added Multimedia viewer/image utility.
- It's multi-windows with flexible, pop-up Browser supports:
-
- AVI video
- BMP/DIB (Windows Bitmap)
- CAL (G4 FAX)
- CD Audio
- CMP (Lead JPEG)
- DCX (Intel MultiPage fax)
- FLI/FLC animation
- JPG/JIF (JPEG)
- KQP (Konica Quality Photo)
- MID (MIDI)
- MPG (MPEG-1)
- MOV (Quicktime)
- PCD (PhotoCD)
- PCT (Mac Pict)
- PCX/PCC (Zsoft)
- PIC (Pegasus 'JPEG', Excalibur)
- PNG (Portable Network Graphics)
- RAS (Sun)
- TGA (Targa)
- TIF (TIFF)
- WAV audio
- WPG (WordPerfect)
-
- FEATURES:
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- * Win95 compatible, uninstalls in Win31
- * Easy-to-use, right click pop-ups, adopts Win95 colors
- * Drag & Drop, file Association (Explorer/FileMgr, Web Browsers ...)
-
- * SuperFAST, High Quality JPEG support:
- - separate color and luminance compression settings
- - reads problem files
- - proprietary CMP (Lead) and KQP/PIC support (with 256-color palettes)
-
- * Slideshows w/ simultaneous audio, overlapped graphics, video
- - "spreadsheet" editor
- - slide controls (reverse, stop, advance slide)
- - cell-assigned pop-up menus
- - drag & drop reordering
- - 30+ transitions, randomizer
- - loops,variable speed/volume/size/position
- - variable delays, background colors, centering ...
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- * Enhanced color prints w/ choice of dithering (avoids color matching)
- * FAST previews, edit previews, AutoUndo, image histograms
- * 1/100th deg. rotation
- * variable-depth emboss
- * smooth resizing (BiCubic interpolation)
- * RGB histograms, linear equalization, histogram contrast enhancement
- * TWAIN scans, RGB gamma correction/contrast/brightness/split/combine
- * virtual memory (eg., 18Mb PhotoCD images)
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- VidFun will also convert formats, sharpen, smooth, posterize, flip,
- tile (mosaic), reduce/promote colors, crop, trim, cut/paste to clipboard
- DIB/DDB ...more!
-
-
- REQUIREMENTS:
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- Windows 95 (or Windows 3.1) and VBRUN300.DLL.
- Browse for "VBRUN" to search online services, the Internet or BBSs.
-
- OPTIONAL:
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- MCI Drivers for Win31:
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- a. Video for Windows (Search for "VFW" for availability)
- b. WAV and MIDI (These come with your sound card)
-
- MCI Drivers for Win31 and Win95:
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- c. FLI/FLC drivers (Search for "FLI", "AAPLAY" or "AAWIN" for availability)
- d. Quicktime for Windows. (visit http://www.apple.com)
- e. VMPEG v1.7 (or later); or MCI driver (w/ some MPEG-accelerator cards)
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-
- IMPORTANT:
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- Ensure that VBRUN300.DLL is in your \Windows\System directory before
- running SETUP.EXE from Windows.
-
- Diamond Stealth64 users with bios version "U" may experience video
- driver-related problems; upgrade your Windows driver to 964133.EXE
- (self-extracting file) or later from Diamond (CIS users can GO DMNDONLINE).
-
-
- The following MUST be included.
- *******************************
-
- README 1ST THIS DOC
-
- SETUP EXE
- LG_SETUP DLL
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- VFUN EXE APP DIR FILES
- VIDFUN EXE (in VidFun app dir)
- UNINSTAL EXE
- README TXT
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- VIDFUN HLP APP SYSTEM FILES
- VIDFUN DLL (in \windows \system dir)
- LEAD VBX
- MMEDIA DLL
- LEAD51 DLL
- LEADDIB DRV
- PCDLIB DLL
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- SUBEZ VBX APP EXTENSIONS
- THREED VBX (in VidFun app dir)
- VBCTL3D VBX
- CMDIALOG VBX
- JEWIN DLL
- JPW DLL
- XQUERYW DLL
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-
- VidFun 1.6 Update
-
- 1. Added MultiPage DCX (Intel "PCX fax") read support.
- 2. Added Multipage TIF fax read support (CCITT, G3, G4,...).
- 3. Changed default 256-color viewing to error-diffusion (better)
- 4. Added ordered dithering (halftone) to all color reduction options.
- 5. Added MPEG support with complete slideshow integration.
- 6. Faster File Browser; retains previous highlighted file.
- 7. Added Refresh command to File Browser.
- 8. BUGFIX: Changing Quicktime MOV volume setting or video configuration
- (eg., loop) sometimes reset speed to zero (stopped); corrected.
- 9. Misc minor bugfixes.
-
-
- 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.
-