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- VIDVUE v3.1
- Copyright 1993-1994 Lawrence Gozum
- All rights reserved.
-
-
- SUMMARY:
-
- VIDVUE is an easy-to-use Multimedia player/slideshow/viewer/utility
- distributed as 100% Functional Shareware.
-
- It fully supports FULL-FEATURED 89a and 87a GIFs with, probably, the fastest
- decode-to-screen Window routines (80x86 assembly). Includes Full Screen
- decoding and full support for JPG/JIF, BMP/DIB, PCX, TIFF, TGA and DCX
- formats, plus, raster image support for WPG, EPS and PICT files - and, full
- vector support for WMF files. Comment viewing, with many options, for GIF
- and JPG/JIF files is also supported.
-
- It plays AVI video, WAV audio, MIDI music, FLI/FLC animation files and
- Apple Quicktime MOVies. AVI and MOV playback can be fully scaled in a
- sizeable window. Includes AVI frame grab function to import and save
- AVI and MOV frames to other formats.
-
- Multimedia slideshows (w/ all formats) can be played with marked files and
- user scripts. Includes Shuffle Play, AutoCenter, AutoDither, AutoSize,
- variable delays and backgrounds and AVI scaling, special GIF processing,
- plus other features PER SLIDE! Plays WAV and MID files with displayed
- images. Unlimited slides (as many as you want).
-
- Conveniences include last file(s) recall (up to eight files); last
- drive/directory recall and last desktop position recall.
-
- Image printing on B/W printers supports error-distributed dithering for
- superior gray shades. Interface includes a simulated document to resize and
- position image on paper before printing.
-
- Special image processing includes 'hotspot removal' for converting GIFs to
- BMP Wallpaper without the "burnt colors", and PackVideo, for enhancing video
- frame captures and resizing.
-
- VIDVUE also converts file formats, sharpens, smoothens, adjusts contrast
- and brightness, resizes, flips/rotates, dithers, reduces colors, converts
- to gray, and copies DIBs to/from clipboard, among other features.
-
-
- REQUIREMENTS:
-
- Required: Windows 3.1 running in Enhanced mode and VBRUN300.DLL.
- ********* Browse/search for "VBRUN" to check availability in any forum/RT,
- or check local BBSs for VBRUN3.ZIP or VBRUN300.ZIP.
-
- Optional: Installed Video for Windows (VFW) runtime for AVI playback.
- Browse/search for "VFW" to check availability, or check local
- BBSs for VFWRUN.ZIP or VFW11A.ZIP.
-
- Optional: Installed MCI drivers for WAV and MIDI playback.
- These come with your sound card.
-
- Optional: Installed MCI drivers for FLI/FLC playback.
- At CIS, download NEWPLA.ZIP from GO ASOFT
- or WAPLAY.EXE from GO GRAPHSUP.
- At GEnie, download AAWIN11.ZIP from CYBERSPACE RT;
- or check local BBSs for AAWIN11.ZIP (or later).
-
- Optional: Installed MCI drivers for MOV (Quicktime for Windows) playback.
- You most likely have installed MCI drivers for Quicktime for
- Windows (QTW) playback, if you purchased and are currently using:
-
- Adobe Premiere 1.0 (or later) for Windows
- Macromedia Action 2.5 (or later) for Windows
- Macromedia Authorware Pro 2.0 (or later) for Windows
-
- If you have a CDROM and several CDROM titles, you may already have
- the QTW runtime files, VIDVUE's README.WRI file details how to
- setup for MCI playback.
-
- At CIS,
-
- 1. GO MACDEV.
- 2. Download LICENS.TXT from Library 8.
- 3. Read and abide to terms and conditions in LICENS.TXT.
- 4. If you agree to LICENS.TXT, then download
- QTDSK1.ZIP and QTDSK2.ZIP.
-
- Note: QTDSK1.ZIP and QTDSK2.ZIP are NOT distributable files.
- Only YOU can download and use them (see LICENS.TXT).
- READ THE README.WRI FILE IN QTDSK1.ZIP.
-
-
- VIDVUE 3.1 Update
-
- o Overhauled/replaced Full Screen display function;
- added Scrolling mode when image is larger than Full Screen.
-
- - Fully integrated with Monitor Gamma setting
- - Fully integrated with Monitor Brightness setting
- - Fully integrated with Monitor Contrast setting
- - User-selectable buffer (memory or disk)
-
- o Added user-definable "Wallpaper" bitmaps that can be added
- in scripted slideshows for AVI, MOV, FLI and FLC background;
- great for simulating a TV, theatre with audience, kiosk ...
-
- o Added GIF comment recall command in Viewing Window.
-
- o Added GIF comment filter to automatically add linefeeds to
- text blocks where only carriage returns were used.
-
- o Changed "Browse WAV" option default to OFF to enabled MIDI playback
- on systems with sound cards (ie., not using PC Speaker driver).
-
- o Added global memory compaction option at Video/System info dialog.
-
- o Bugfix: New playback scheme caused a Quicktime (MOVie) playback error
- during slideshows; corrected.
-
- o Bugfix: New routines "doubled" Contrast and Brightness levels in
- image backup copy and full screen title bar area; corrected.
-
-
- VIDVUE 3.0 Update
-
- o Added DDE capability to show images or play multimedia files
- via one instance of VIDVUE. Source code is included for writing your
- own VB app to display/playback graphics and multimedia files via VIDVUE.
-
- o Enhanced virtual memory management.
-
- o Added conversion to Promote 256-color to 24-bit color process.
-
- o Added conversion to Promote 16-color to 256 color process.
-
- o Added conversion to Promote B/W to 256 color process.
-
- o Added 32-bit AVI and MOV (Quicktime MOVie) grab support.
-
- o Added "On-the-Fly" Gamma error adjustment for displayed images.
-
- - Variable adjustment ranges between 0.01 to 1.99.
-
- - "On-the-Fly" preview/feedback of results; imagesa can be saved
- to any supported format with adjustments.
-
- - Supports 256-color, gray shade and True-color (24-bit) images.
-
- - Device-independent, works on image "in memory" regardless of
- current video mode (eg., will work on VGA 16-color mode while
- adjusting True-color (24-bit) images.
-
- - Independent slideshow image support; can be adjusted/set for
- EACH slide in your multimedia slideshow. Great for viewing
- read-only images (ie., from CDROM) that come from different
- sources/originators using different monitors/video cards.
-
- o Enhanced JPEG/JPG/JIF 24-bit encoding; suberb image quality
- at greater compression levels!
-
- o Added JPEG/JPG/JIF 8-bit encoding for saving files with 256 gray shades;
- automatically promotes and saves 256-color images.
-
- o Added Kodak PHOTO-CD support.
-
- - Supports maximum resolution of 2048x3072.
-
- - Automatically reduces resolution to next base level if memory
- resources are running low (eg., switches to 512x768x16M if
- 1024x1536x16M image cannot fit in memory).
-
- - Fully integrated with all Automatic options (eg., AutoSize and
- AutoDither) and Slideshow options/keywords.
-
- - Fully integrated with AutoDither option; uses Kodak's FAST dithering
- routines; if AutoDither is set,it will dither/reduce color depth to
- 256-colors or 16-colors depending on user's video driver.
-
- o Multiple-image support; quickly views multiple-image "documents" with
- VARIABLE PAGE SIZES (eg., half-page fax cover at 100 dpi low resolution
- with legal-size documents at 200 dpi high resolution plus a drawing at
- non-standard, 300 dpi "SuperFax" resolution).
-
- - Multiple-image DCX (Intel format) support;
- - Multiple-image TIFF support; very fast CCITT, G3, G4 decoding.
-
- o Added SPEAKER.DRV support for WAV playback. Users without sound cards
- can now enjoy WAV playback via the generic PC speaker driver. Slideshow
- support is also included.
-
- o FLI device drivers are now verified prior to first playback during any
- session and optimal initialization procedure is used.
-
- o WAV device drivers are now verified prior to first playback during any
- session and optimal initialization procedure is used.
-
- o Added fast WAV file "browser" to immediately play a selected file from
- the file list box; it plays immediately and instantly terminates with
- next selection to be played.
-
- o Added convenient recall of Load drive/directory during session.
-
- o Added convenient recall of Save drive/directory during session.
-
- o Added convenient recall of Save file format during session.
-
- o Added convenient recall of Load file format during session.
-
- o Added automatic File Recall exit from File Save mode (if active) to
- immediately view selected image; great for iterative JPG saves to
- experiment with optimal quality vs. size setting.
-
- o Added full Font dialog for selecting the font, font style and font size
- for comment text viewing (remembered during the entire viewing session).
-
- o Increase AVI slideshow scaling to 300% to account for faster multimedia
- accelerators and CPUs.
-
- o Optimized AVI and MOV/Quicktime playback (normal and slideshow mode);
- modified to take advantage of multimedia accelerators and 64-bit cards.
-
- o Bugfix: AVI and MOV grabs did not capture correctly in HiColor, and
- 24-bit video modes with new 64-bit video cards and multimedia
- accelerator drivers; corrected.
-
- o Bugfix: Last file recall update to last 8 files did not update correctly
- on some systems configurations; corrected.
-
-
- IMPORTANT:
-
- Please ensure that VBRUN300.DLL is in your Windows directory or
- Windows System sub-directory before running SETUP.EXE from Windows.
-
- To install, select "Run" from the Program Manager menu bar then enter
- the pathname and "SETUP". For example, if you extracted the files
- into "e:\test" then type "e:\test\setup".
-
- VIDVUE's Setup now provides an option to setup ALL files in it's specified
- application directory.
-
- IN THE UNLIKELY EVENT YOU HAVE SETUP PROBLEMS, PLEASE READ INSTALL.TXT.
-
- The following files MUST be included in this distribution set.
- **************************************************************
-
- README 1ST This file.
- INSTALL TXT Notes on VIDVUE Setup.
-
- SETUP EXE Setup program
- LG_SETUP DLL
-
- VVU EXE THESE FILES ARE IN YOUR VIDVUE DIRECTORY
- VIDVUE EXE
- DEMO TXT \
- TRAVIATA TXT > Skeleton Slideshow scripts
- JMPSTART TXT /
- VVUDDE MAK \ DDE VB sample code
- VVUDDE FRM /
- GAMMA BMP --> Test file for gamma adjustment
- 3DFRAME BMP --> Video/animation "wallpaper"/background
- README WRI --> Read this!
- VIDVUE HLP --> VIDVUE Help
-
- VIDVUE DLL THESE FILES ARE PLACED IN YOUR VIDVUE DIRECTORY
- ACCUVB16 VBX OR, OPTIONALLY IN THE \WINDOWS\SYSTEM DIRECTORY
- SUBEZ VBX VIDVUE WILL NOT RUN IF ANY OF THESE ARE MISSING!
- THREED VBX
- IMVBX3 VBX
- VBCTL3D VBX
- CMDIALOG VBX
- PCDLIB DLL
- IM2PCX DIL
- IM2TIFF DIL
- IM2XJPEG DEL
- DIB DRV
-