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- XingMPEG Player
- Version 1.4
- Xing Technology Corporation
- 1540 West Branch Street
- Arroyo Grande, CA 93420
-
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- GETTING STARTED
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- Preparing to Install the XingMPEG Player
-
- Before installing the XingMPEG Player, make sure the following hardware
- and software is installed and working:
- - IBM PC 486/Pentium or compatible computer
- (a Pentium with at least 8MB of RAM is recommended);
- - Microsoft Windows v3.1 or higher;
- - a hard disk drive with at least 3MB of free space;
- - a CD-ROM drive is optional;
- - a sound card with a Windows wave audio driver is optional.
-
- Installing the XingMPEG Player
-
- 1 Turn on your computer and start Windows.
- 2 Insert the XingMPEG Player Diskette into your diskette drive.
- 3 Open the Windows 3.x Program Manager and choose the "Run" command
- from the "File" menu (under Windows 95, choose Run from the Start menu);
- the "Run" dialog will appear.
- 4 Type "A:\SETUP" (substitute the drive letter of your diskette drive
- for "A", if necessary), and click the "OK" button; the XingMPEG Player
- setup program will start.
- 5 Follow the setup program's on-screen instructions.
-
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- NOTES TO WINDOWS 95 USERS
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-
- ** XingMPEG Player 2.0 for Windows95 is now available! **
- ** Read "XingMPEG Support" at the end of this file for information **
- ** about obtaining an update. **
-
- REGARDING VIDEO ACCELERATION AVAILABILITY - Under Windows95, DCI
- acceleration is unavailable with most Display Systems. If you are
- using such a display system, you must obtain a Direct Draw version
- of the XingMPEG Player and Direct Draw drivers for your PC's Display
- System to access video acceleration (including hardware stretching
- and color space conversion). Read the "XingMPEG Support" at the end of
- this file for more information.
-
- REGARDING PLAYBACK OF CD-I TITLES - If you encounter problems playing
- CD-i titles (or Video CD titles opened with the "Open CD-i Movie"
- command) read the "Xing Tech Note" later in this file for more
- information.
-
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- RELEASE NOTES TO XingMPEG Player VERSION 1.4
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- XingMPEG Driver (XMDRIVER.DRV)
- - Compatibility with non-standard MPEG file formats has been improved.
-
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- RELEASE NOTES TO XingMPEG Player VERSION 1.3
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- XingMPEG Driver (XMDRIVER.DRV)
- - Embedded Media Objects now behave properly
- - Under Windows95, playback of WhiteBook (VideoCD) CDs is now
- supported via CDFS
- - Offscreen DCI is now available under Windows95 when using the
- Trident 9680 display system.
- - Audio buffer initialization routine has been modified to improve
- compatibility with audio cards that use IBM's MWAVE chip.
- - The MCI driver has been modified to support new clarifications
- to the OM1 (MCIMPEG) specification:
- - MCI_UPDATE_HDC is now supported
- - MCI SAMPLES PER SECOND is now supported
- - MCI STATUS_FRAME_RATE is now supported
- - MCI STATUS_AUDIO STREAMS now returns "0" when a video-only
- MPEG file is opened
- - MCI SET_AUDIO/VIDEO STREAMS is now supported
- - MCI SET_TIME_FORMAT now supports the BYTES (or "2") parameter
- - MCI SETAUDIO now supports LEFT and RIGHT parameters
- - MCI SEEK now supports OFFSET and FRAMEREF parameters
- - MCI CONFIGURE now returns proper error value
- - NOTIFY, SUPERCEDE, and SIGNAL fully supported
- - The XingMPEG Driver now returns "1.3" when responding to the MCI
- command "INFO VERSION".
-
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- RELEASE NOTES TO XingMPEG Player VERSION 1.2
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- XingMPEG Driver (XMDRIVER.DRV)
- - The XingMPEG Driver's configuration dialog contains a new audio
- sampling rate option "44kHz".
- - The XingMPEG Driver now supports a wider selection of CD-i titles.
- - The XingMPEG Driver now handles changes in frame resolution when
- playing multiple tracks from a CDi or Video CD title.
- - Handling of on-the-fly switch from DIB to Primary Surface DCI has
- been improved.
- - Handling of on-the-fly resizing of a non-DCI video window
- under Windows 95 has been improved.
- - The XingMPEG Driver now properly accesses primary DCI surfaces
- when opened as a child of an application's window.
- - Corrections have been made to the return values of several MCI
- commands.
- - The XingMPEG Driver now returns "1.2" when responding to the MCI
- command "INFO VERSION".
-
- XingMPEG Player (XMPLAYER.EXE)
- - The XingMPEG PlayerÆs Standard Bar and Advanced Bar display modes are
- now unavailable under Windows 95.
- - Clicking the "Step" buttons during playback now stops playback.
-
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- RELEASE NOTES TO XingMPEG Player VERSION 1.1
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- XingMPEG Driver (XMDRIVER.DRV)
- - Installation of the XingMPEG Driver now registers two MCI device TYPES:
- In addition to the "MpegVideo" device type, the device type "CDIVideo"
- is registered to provide direct access to CD-i and VideoCD titles.
- - The XingMPEG Driver's configuration dialog contains a new option
- "Crop to fit in standard window" that affects the driver's behavior
- when playing CD-i movies. When this option is selected, CD-i movies
- whose horizontal dimension is greater than 352 pixels are cropped
- to fit in the standard 352 pixel wide Video Display window.
- This feature is provided because some DCI-compliant Windows display
- systems suffer degraded video playback performance when video frames'
- horizontal dimension exceed 352 pixels. If you notice slower video
- playback when playing CD-i titles, try enabling this feature.
- - The XingMPEG Driver now returns "1.1" when responding to the MCI
- command "INFO VERSION".
-
- XingMPEG Player (XMPLAYER.EXE)
- - The XingMPEG PlayerÆs "File" menu now contains the entry "Open CD-i
- Movie". When this item is chosen, the XingMPEG Player automatically
- locates and opens all readable MPEG files on a mounted CD-i or VideoCD
- disk.
- - The File Information windowÆs "File Duration" field now displays the
- correct SMPTE formatted value; previously, calculation of this value
- failed to account for the loaded fileÆs frame rate and assumed
- 30 frames/second.
- - Clicking on the Track Bar now moves the current position indicator
- in increments equal to approximately 1/16 the total duration of
- the current file. In previous versions, clicking on the Track Bar
- moved the current position indicator in 1 second increments.
-
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- RELEASE NOTES TO XingMPEG Player VERSION 1.03
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- XingMPEG Driver (XMDRIVER.DRV)
- - The XingMPEG Driver now returns "1.03" when responding to the MCI
- command "INFO VERSION".
- - Eliminated an unnecessary reinstallation of the color pallette (in
- 256 color display mode) that occurred when the XingMPEG Driver switched
- between DCI and DIB during video playback.
-
- * Note Regarding Unreadable MPEG Files:
- The XingMPEG Player can play any MPEG file that conforms to the MPEG-1
- standard. Some MPEG files do not conform to this standard; e.g., they may
- have undergone data encryption that renders them readable only by the
- application that performed the encryption; or they may contain non-standard
- data. If you attempt to play such an MPEG file with the XingMPEG Player,
- an error message appears indicating that the file is unreadable.
-
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- RELEASE NOTES TO XingMPEG Player VERSION 1.02
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-
- XingMPEG Player (XMPLAYER.EXE)
- - The "Rate Control Off" warning is re-enabled whenever the driver's
- Rate Control setting is toggled.
-
- XingMPEG Driver (XMDRIVER.DRV)
- - The XingMPEG Driver now returns "1.02" when responding to the MCI
- command "INFO VERSION".
- - Corrected method for sending a null region to DCI providers;
- prior to this change, clipping the video window occasionally
- produced unwanted remnants of the DCI surface.
- - Eliminated an unnecessary yield on Show Window call; prior to this
- change, some applications (e.g., video screen savers) might destroy
- the video window prior to closing the MCI driver instance.
- - Improved handling of bad data in an MPEG stream; prior to this change,
- corrupted data in an MPEG stream could cause cessation of video playback.
- - Eliminated problem whereby the Performance diagnostic failed to play
- video in some 256-color display environments; this change also
- eliminated potential playback problem when an MPEG file is passed to
- XMPLAYER as a command line argument.
-
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- RELEASE NOTES TO XingMPEG Player VERSION 1.01
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-
- INSTALLATION
- - You can now deinstall XingMPEG Player components by running the
- SETUP program and deselecting items.
-
- XingMPEG Player (XMPLAYER.EXE)
- - Clicking the "Seek to Start" button during playback no longer stops
- playback.
- - When the Performance Diagnostic dialog is opened, the default "Drive"
- is now your PC's local fixed drive on which the XingMPEG Player
- is installed.
-
- XingMPEG Driver (XMDRIVER.DRV)
- - The XingMPEG Driver now automatically determines if your PC's
- Windows Sound System is capable of 16-bit audio playback; this
- feature insures proper audio playback on PC's equipped with
- 8-bit-only sound systems.
- - The XingMPEG Driver now returns "1.01" when responding to the MCI
- command "INFO VERSION".
-
- XingMPEG Saver (XMSAVER.SCR)
- - The Montage option has been removed from the XingMPEG Saver's
- setup dialog.
-
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- ************************* XingTech Note **************************
- **********************************************************************
-
- Title Windows 95 and GreenBook CDi Titles
- Catalog# W9500010
- History created 8/2/95 by tsilva
- modified 8/30/95 by saiena
- modified 11/21/95 by saiena
-
- **********************************************************************
-
- Windows95 uses a new interface (CDFS) to CD-ROM device drivers.
- Because CDFS does not support Greenbook CD-i "Digital Video" disks,
- such disks are currently unplayable under Windows95; WhiteBook CD-i
- "VideoCD" disks are however supported. If, when attempting to play
- MPEG data from a CD disk, your PC produces an error message
- (e.g., "no CD" or "CD not ISO-9660 or High-Sierra compatible"),
- you likely have a GreenBook CD-i title.
-
- Because the XingMPEG Player version 1.3 supports the older MSCDEX
- interface to CD-ROM devices, it may be possible play GreenBook titles
- by reconfiguring your PC to use MSCDEX instead of CDFS; BUT there
- are some considerations:
- - MSCDEX is slower than CDFS;
- - because the CD-ROM driver must be loaded in REAL mode, system
- performance is slightly slowed;
- - some CD-ROM drivers/drives may not work with GreenBook CD-i titles
- even after the reconfiguration; replacement of the CD-ROM driver/drive
- may be necessary to enable playback of GreenBook titles;
- - There may be other ill effects of which we are currently unaware.
-
- * DISCLAIMER:
- * Because of these considerations, we strongly recommend that you
- * back-up your PC's file system prior to performing the reconfiguration.
- *
- * The procedure described in this file is not guaranteed to enable
- * GreenBook and WhiteBook CD playback on all PCs.
-
- **********************************************************************
- To enable reading of GreenBook CDi titles from within Windows 95, complete
- the following steps (you must have a properly functioning CD in
- your PC before completing these steps):
-
- - Type the CONFIG.SYS file on the root of your Windows 95 boot drive,
- and note the line that loads your PC's CD-ROM driver; e.g., the
- following command types the config.sys file:
- type c:\config.sys
- And the following line loads the CD-ROM driver:
- DEVICE=C:\UTILS\SCSI\ASPICD.SYS /D:ASPICD0
- - Edit the AUTOEXEC.BAT file on the root of your Windows 95 boot drive,
- and add a line that loads the MSCDEX program, e.g.:
- <PATH>MSCDEX.EXE /D:<DRIVER>
- Where <PATH> is the path to the MSCDEX program,
- and <DRIVER> is the name of the driver specified in your PC's
- CONFIG.SYS file, e.g.:
- C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\MSCDEX.EXE /D:ASPICD0
- - Edit the IOS.INI in your PC's Windows 95 directory, and find
- the line that specifies your PC's CD-ROM driver, e.g.:
- aspicd.sys ; adaptec PM driver exists
- If this line appears in the [SafeList] section of the file, move it from
- the [SafeList] section to the [CDUnsafe] section; e.g.: after you move
- the line, your IOS.INI file should have lines that look like this:
- [CDUnsafe]
- aspicd.sys ; adaptec PM driver exists
- - Reboot your PC.
-
- At this point, if problems persist, try diabling 32-bit disk access:
- - Run the SYSTEM control panel
- - Go to the PERFORMANCE panel
- - Click the "File System" button
- - Go to the "Troubleshooting" panel
- - Enable the option: "Disable all 32-bit Protect Mode Disk Drivers"
- - Reboot your PC
-
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- ************************* XingMPEG Support **************************
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-
- Product updates and general support information
- are available electronically via:
-
- Compuserve: GO XINGSUPPORT
- Internet: http://www.xingtech.com/
- XingBBS: (805) 473-2680 (modem speed=14.4, 8N1)
-
- If you need further information, please contact your
- dealer or the manufacturer of the product with which
- the XingMPEG Player came bundled.
-