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- This installer is going to install the Video Server Package.
- All rights of the installed software belong to the authors.
- It is mandatory to read all documentation include in this package.
-
- Program : Premiere Video Server PlugIn v0.93 / Video Wrapper codecs
- Author : Edwin van Eggelen
- e-mail : edwinvaneggelen@softhome.net
- URL : http://www.videotools.net
-
- Program : Installer v0.99
- Author : Silly Guy
- e-mail : sillyguyw@yahoo.com
- URL : http://ice.prohosting.com/sillyguy/
-
- Program : BbMpeg v1.24 beta18.1
- Author : Brent Beyeler
- URL : http://members.home.net/beyeler/bbmpeg.html
-
- Program : PullDown v0.99c
- Author : Hardcore
-
- Program : Wav2mp v1.1
- Author : John Schlichther
- URL : http://www/mnsi.net/~jschlic1
-
- New:
- -Audio support for the Wrapper server mode.
- -external audio encoder input for the multiplexor (Useful for CCE)
- -Added AC3 multiplexor support.
- -Bug fix: problems with settings are solved in Premiere.
- -Automatic default settings detection for each application.
- (Now random access is automatically enabled in Premiere as default)
- -If the Timeout function is selected, the time out is enabled after that 2
- frames are read. This prevents the problem that the plugin times out
- when the user is setting the properties in TMPGEnc.
- -post processing support for VCD.
- -Help link in settings menu.
- -Added check for audio encoder. Now you will get a warning
- if you are not exporting 44100Hz audio when the audio encoder is enabled.
- -GUI fixes (e.g. location of window)
- -Audio only fix for MPEG mediator
-
- Introduction:
- -------------
- The video server plugin enables you to convert Premiere or FlasK
- to a frame server. This is very useful if you want to code your edited
- video from Premiere or FlasK with an external (MPEG)-encoder
- e.g. TMPGEnc or Cinemacraft encoder. This is done by creating a "fake"
- AVI-file. The created "fake" AVI can be loaded into the encoder as
- a normal AVI. This resolves the problem of making a time and
- space consuming intermediate AVI. If you load the "fake" AVI-file
- into an encoder, the aviwrap.dll codec makes a connection with the plugin.
- When an encoder wants to read audio or video, this request is passed
- to the Premiere/FlasK plugin. Then the plugin fetches the audio/video
- and sends this to the encoder. We call this inter-process-communication.
-
- Recommended server mode for encoders:
-
- Encoder Server mode
- ----------------------------------+--------------------------
- -Microsoft Media Encoder v8 | Wrapper, RAW Audio
- -Cinemacraft SP v2.62 | Wrapper
- -Cinemacraft SP v2.50 | Wrapper
- -TMPGEnc (several versions) | Wrapper
- -VirtualDub v1.4d | Wrapper
- -NERO encoder plugin v1.2 | Wrapper *
- -LSX encoder v3.5 | Wrapper, RAW Audio or AVISynth
- -Ulead DVD Movie Factory (editor) | Wrapper
-
- * If you run into problems please use RAW Audio, I have performed
- many succesful encodings with the NERO MPEG plugin, but
- occasionally NERO gives an error at the end of the encoding.
-
- Do I need AVISynth ?
- --------------------
- NO, The Premiere Video Server plugin is a standalone program. It does not need
- AVISynth to export the data (So you do not need to install it). The plugin is
- able to export the data to AVISynth but I only recommend that you use AVISynth
- if you want to process the video in the export chain with a script language.
- AVISynth is something like Adobe Premiere but without a graphical user
- interface, it uses a script language as user input.
-
- Please note that not all encoders are able to read AVISynth-files. The following
- encoders are NOT able to read AVISynth-files: CCE SP v2.62, Windows Media
- Encoder v8. Although I was able to encode AVISynth-files in TMPGEnc on all my
- tested systems, I am getting reports that some people are not able to code the
- AVISynth-files in TMPGEnc on some machines.
-
- Guides:
- -------
- There are many good guides on how to use this plugin. You can find a guide
- and some good links on my site (www.videotools.net). The site www.rmvos.nl
- has the latest info about this plugin most of the time.
- So maybe you should start looking there first.
-
- Tested operating systems:
- -------------------------
- I have personally tested it on Windows 98, NT and Windows 2000.
- So this should be no problem.
-
- Tested programs:
- -------------------------
- Premiere v5.x (RGB only)
- Premiere v6.x (RGB only)
- FlasK v0.x (RGB only)
- multipass FlasK v0.6 (RGB only)
- multipass Xis x.x (RGB,YUY,YV12)
- Xmpeg (RGB,YUY,YV12)
- DVDx v1.6 (RGB only)
- MPEG Mediator (RGB only)
-
- Links:
- -------------------------------------------------------
- Window Media Encoder v8 (free download)
- http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/
-
- Cinemacraft Encoder SP v2.62 (trial version)
- www.doom9.net
-
- TMPGEnc (free download)
- www.tmpgenc.com
-
- VirtualDub (free download)
- www.virtualdub.org
-
- BUGS:
- -----
- If you find a bug, please send me an e-mail so that I am able to fix it.
-
- Known problems:
- ---------------
- -DVDx 1.6 will crash at 99%. This happens if you try to export more frames
- than there actually are in the DVD-movie. So I recommend that you lower the
- number of frames, so that the final video will be 30sec shorter than the
- DVD. (You only skip the "credits"). To date I have not able to
- create a workaround for this. Hopefully the author of DVDx will fix this soon.
-
- -If the proxy server of virtual dubb is enabled. The AVIroutines from windows
- will not work correctly as discribed in the readme of virtualdubb. As a result
- the plugin is not able to create the AVIfile correctly. Please run the proxyoff.reg
- file from the virtualdubb package.
-
- -VirtualDub does not recognise the bits per sample of the audio correctly.
- Turn on "Full processing mode" in the audio menu.
- Audio conversion->Precision->16bit.
- It is possible to enable a bug workaround for this, but as CCE SP 2.62
- crashes with this workaround it is not enabled by default. Please read the
- documentation on my site to enable it.
-
- -TMPGEnc is not able to read AVS-scripts correctly
- Disable the DirectShow filters in TMPGEnc when using AVISynth. You can find out
- on my site how to do this.
-
- -Encoder/player will not read the AVISynth-scriptfile ? I noticed that many
- "new" programs do NOT use the Windows functions to read the AVI-files. If they
- do NOT use those standard Windows functions the AVISynth- files will not work.
- Known programs that do NOT use those routines are CCE SP v2.62, Windows Media
- Encoder vx.x Furthermore, I heard that there are problems with Windows Media
- Player 7.
-
- -You can NOT serve to the Media Player v6.4 in Windows 98 while using the AVI-
- Wrapper mode. If you do open the created AVI in the Media Player using W98, it
- will result in a crash of your system. This is not a bug of the AVI-Wrapper but
- more than a shortcoming of the Media Player using W98. The problem is as
- follows: when the codec is getting the message to decode a frame, the Media
- Player sets the operating system in such a mode that no other application gets
- any CPU time. Because the codec gives a request to the server to decode a frame
- and waits 'till this is ready, it looks like your system hangs. The Media
- Player disables all other applications (and the server) and this frame will
- never be decoded and the Media Player waits forever..............
-
- To date, I have noticed that ONLY the Media Player does this while running
- under W98. So all tested encoders work fine while running W98.
-
- Hope this helps....
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