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- A A V IIIII 000 3333 000 VERSION 0.99
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- PAR SECTOR ONE
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- SUMMARY :
- - AUTHOR AND CONTACT
- - WHAT IS IT ?
- - TECHNICAL INFORMATIONS
- - HOW TO RUN ?
- - THE SHELL (AVI030s.PRG) v1.56
- - SINCE RELEASE 0.91
- - SINCE RELEASE 0.93
- - SINCE RELEASE 0.95b
- - SINCE RELEASE 0.96a
- - SINCE RELEASE 0.97b
- - SINCE RELEASE 0.98
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- * AUTHOR AND CONTACTS
- =====================
- - AUTHOR :
- ---------
- . Concept / Design / Test
- par HELLO AND STGHOST / SECTOR ONE
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- . AVI030.TTP
- programmation par STGHOST / SECTOR ONE
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- . AVI030s.PRG
- programmation par STGHOST / SECTOR ONE
- interface et code GEM par HELLO / SECTOR ONE
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- - CONTACTS :
- ----------
- If you like this program and use it quite often, please send money to
- help in its our development...Don't be silly and keep Atari alive !!!
- It is moneyware: spread it freely but send money if you want improvements.
-
- If you want to get in touch :
- STGHOST / SECTOR ONE
- HUGUET Denis
- 104bis, Avenue du General de Gaulle
- 18500 Mehun sur Yevre
- FRANCE
- or
- HELLO / SECTOR ONE
- VILLENEUVE Christophe
- 20, rue du docteur Zamenhof
- 18000 Bourges
- FRANCE
-
- You can also join us by connecting to:
- sur NeST : Christophe Villeneuve @90:801/1.9
- sur Atarinet : Christophe Villeneuve @51:902/1.9
- sur BBS BRAZIL : (33) 01.44.67.08.44 (Christophe Villeneuve)
- sur BBS PARX : (33) 02.43.53.57.70 (Christophe Villeneuve)
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- * WHAT IS IT ?
- ==============
- If you have seen or used a PC or a Mac, you have probably met multimedia
- movies. These are in fact slideshows of packed picture with some digital
- sound in most cases. There are 2 kinds of movies: AVI and MOV.
- This program offers you to play AVI files on a Falcon030 computer (with
- a speed card if you want an impressive result).
-
- This player supports most existing movies from 256 colours to 16 million
- colours...You have to know that a lot of different packmodes are available
- for pictures. Sound can also be stored in many ways. Of course, all these
- formats are not directly useable on Atari, so they have to be converted.
- In this player, quality is privileged without slowing too much the replay
- (except for big movies).
-
- It implies many things. First, no picture is jumped contrary to other
- players (even on PC) which try to give a false impression of speed. The
- sound benefits a format convrsion and a frequency conversion through the
- DSP. 16 million colours movies have the best possible quality. And there
- are also many possible options to control the replay.
-
- Be careful, movies bigger than 320*240 are played more slowly because
- of the screen size.
-
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- * TECHNICAL INFORMATIONS
- ========================
-
- - Runs on Falcon030 (and compatible)
- - Runs with any colour screen either in RGB or in VGA
- - Accept movies up to 640*480 resolution
- - Display in 65536 colours even in 640*480 (448 x 496 max for VGA)
- - Runs in TT-Ram (in theory)
- - Replay in "direct-from-disk" : accepts multimegabyte movies
- - Automatic resolution change
- - Accept external audio clocks (CD and DAT frequencies)
- - Runs with speeded Falcons (tested with Speed Resolution Card)
- - No conflicts with NVDI nor Videl Inside (1 and 2)
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- * HOW TO RUN ?
- ==============
-
- This player is a TOS-with-parameters program, so it asks for a command
- line. There are 3 ways of avoiding it:
- 1. Install as an application for AVI files. Select the current window as
- default path and Directory to get full pathname.
- 2. Drag the program icon onto the desk. Then drag an AVI file icon and
- drop it on the program icon to play it.
- 3. Use the graphic shell (AVI030 Shell v1.40 or higher).
-
- If you prefer typing a command line, here comes the syntax.
- First you have to type the filename. If it is not in the current directory
- (active window), you have to type the path. If the extension is '.AVI', you
- may not type it.
-
- Examples:
- G:\ANIMS\TIMECOMM\TIME_COM
- plays the TIME_COM.AVI file in the G:\ANIMS\ directory
- ALIVE
- plays the ALIVE.AVI file in the current directory or in the player one
- if no window is opened.
- ANGELS.BBB
- plays the ANGELS.BBB file in the current directory
- It is possible t o precise another extension
- F:\TESTS\FANTA_PL.
- plays the FANTA_PL.AVI file in the F:\TESTS\ directory
- The '.' indicates that there's no extension
-
- It is forbidden to use a wildcard in the filename ('*' or '?') !
-
- If you want to add parameters, add a space then a '-' followed by the
- parameters themselves.
-
- Possible options are:
- s : no sound
- d : no display
- o : no loop
- e1: external 44.1kHz clock (CD)
- e2: external 48kHz clock (DAT)
- n : no synchronization
- f : 'special' modus for 24 bits display (cvid end yvu9 movies only,
- no effect on other formats)
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- Please avoid kicking both sound and display ! The 'n' option isn't really
- interesting if you keep the sound on. If you audio clock has 2 frequencies,
- select it before running the program. 'e1' and 'e2' options only indicates
- to the program which one is available on the DSP port.
-
- Examples:
- ALIVE.AVI plays ALIVE.AVI in current dir with both audio and video
- E:\ANGELS -d plays ANGELS.AVI in E:\ without video
- STINGRAY. -sn plays once STINGRAY in current dir without sound and without
- synchronization (turbo mode)
- PHANTAS2 -doe1 plays PHANTAS2.AVI in current dir without display, without
- looping but with external CD clock
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-
- * THE SHELL (AVI030.PRG)
- ===========
- The Shell you permit of configured the file AVI030.TTP automatically at
- selected just :
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- - The file AVI
- - The player
- - Active different selection throught the button
-
- His utilization maybe not more simple, you do to choose the option of you
- choice in selection the button propose.
-
- - COMPATILIBITE :
- ---------------
- The shell function :
- - As a simple programme (PRG)
- - Under Multitos
- - All gadget use the GEM
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- - The utilization hide (HIDDEN) :
- -------------------------------
- He is possible to effect a SLIDE SHOW at format AVI, that is to say you
- use the path where you stock the file AVI... Not put of name of file in the
- select, but to clique on CONFIRM.
-
- Next choose to PLAY, and the defile of the file AVI unwind. For change of
- file, he have to press on the bar SPACE.
-
- ATTENTION : he is possible to do a SLIDE SHOW with a change automatic at the
- condition of have choose at preliminary 'a play once'.
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-
- * SINCE RELEASE 0.91
- ====================
- There are little new features since last release. The main one is the
- special modus added for cvid (Cinepak) movie format. It gives an higher
- speed for a slight loss of quality of colours. This modus is only available
- for 1 format, it has no effect on other ones.
- The sound now succesfully support 16 bits stereo sound. The 'cracking'
- bug of the 16 bits mono sound has been fixed.
- Some movies were causing bad bugs because of null pictures. It is now
- fixed but it still can bug if your avi file is incomplete !
- Some movies were requiring a lot of ram whereas they don't need so much,
- this is now fixed.
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- * SINCE RELEASE 0.93
- ====================
- A new set of video modes has been implemented in RGB and VGA.
- Some movies were requiring a lot of ram whereas they don't need so much,
- this is now fixed.
- 4 bits sound is recognized but not played, and IV32 movies are recognized
- but not displayed.
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- * SINCE RELEASE 0.95b
- =====================
- 'YVU9' format is now recognized. As it is a slow 24 bit format, I have
- included a fast (-f option) grey display. MRLE format also added.
-
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- * SINCE RELEASE 0.96a
- =====================
- Both full and partial palette-changes are now supported.
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- * SINCE RELEASE 0.97b
- =====================
- The 16 bits display is now OK. Both full and partial palette-changes
- are now supported
- 24 bits formats have been slightly speeded up again
- Some display bugs have been removed.
-
- * SINCE RELEASE 0.98
- ====================
- The cracking-noise of the stereo sound has been mostly fixed
- (it appears above 22kHz).
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