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Xingit! MPEG Player Software Demo
Copyright (c) 1990-1993 Xing Technology Corporation
Xingit! (tm) Version 1.1 Released 3 November 1993
Xing Technology Corporation
1540 West Branch Street
Arroyo Grande, CA 93420
Technical Support: 805-473-7431
Fax: 805-473-0147
BBS: 805-473-2680
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The file MPEGVIEW.EXE installs Xing Technology, Inc.'s Xingit! MPEG Player
Software Demo for IBM 386/486 PC compatibles. This entire self-extracting
(PKZIP 2.04g) archive may be freely distributed under the following
conditions:
1 You may distribute copies of the entire original archive file as
archived by Xing Technology with its authorized authentication code;
2 You may change the file extension to .ZIP or .EXE as desired.
This README file introduces Xing Technology and its products and gives
instructions for:
- installing the Xingit! MPEG Player demo;
- starting the Xingit! MPEG Player demo;
- boosting video playback performance.
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INTRODUCING XING TECHNOLOGY
Xing Technology Corporation, is an active participant in the international
committee that established and defined the JPEG and MPEG standards. Xing
develops, licenses, and applies data compression technology to multimedia
communications solutions. The company's products enable OEM's, developers
and end-users to integrate words, sound, still and moving pictures into
cost-effective PC-based business, education and training tools.
Xing Technology products include:
- Xingit! real-time video capture board with encoding software,
video and sound editors, and full-featured MPEG player;
- Picture Prowler - a fast JPEG imagebase manager for Windows;
- VTCompress - DOS and Windows application and libraries for
coding/decoding and viewing JPEGs;
- XingSound - real-time MPEG audio recorder, software encoder,
and audio file player for Windows.
Contact Xing or your Xing reseller for more information about these
products.
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INSTALLING THE XINGIT! MPEG PLAYER DEMO
The MPEGVIEW.EXE file is a self extracting ZIP file that contains the
Xingit! MPEG Player Software Demo. To install the MPEG player:
1 Create a new directory on your hard drive and copy into it
the MPEGVIEW.EXE file.
2 Run the MPEGVIEW.EXE program from a DOS command line or from within Windows:
- to run it from a DOS command line, change to the directory that
contains the MPEGVIEW.EXE program and type "MPEGVIEW";
- to run it from within Windows, choose "Run" from the Program Manager's
"File" menu; the "Run" dialog appears; enter in the "Command Line" field
the full pathname of the MPEGVIEW.EXE program and click the "OK" button.
When the MPEGVIEW.EXE program is finished, the installation directory should
contain the following files:
DMFW.EXE Windows MPEG Player Program
MPEG.EXE DOS MPEG Player Program
LOOKCHIP.DLL Video Board detector
DDLL.LST data file used by DMFW
MPEG160.DLL Video Playback Driver for small screen
MPEG320.DLL Video Playback Driver for large screen
MSND_MP2.DLL MPEG Sound Driver
MSND_WAV.DLL WAV Sound Driver
MCIMPEG.DRV Windows MCI (Xing Scalable MPEG) Driver
XMPG_AVI.DRV Windows AVI (Xing Scalable MPEG) Driver
XINGIT.HLP Windows Help file - Please Use it!
README.TXT The file you are reading!
OEMSETUP.INF required for installation of MCI and AVI drivers
3 Add the pathname of the installation directory to your environment's
PATH variable.
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STARTING THE XINGIT! MPEG PLAYER DEMO
The Xingit! MPEG Player Demo includes a Windows MPEG Player (DMFW.EXE)
and a DOS MPEG Player (MPEG.EXE).
NOTE: Version 1.1 of the Xingit! MPEG Player can not play MPEG files
containing interframes ("B" and "P" frames). I-frame only MPEG
files are available on Xing's BBS. Version 1.2 of Xingit! will
support MPEG files containing interframes.
As with any Windows application, you can start the DMFW.EXE program in a number
of ways, e.g, from the File Manager or with the "Run" command in the Program
Manager's "File" menu. It is easiest to create a new Program Manager item for
the DMFW.EXE program:
1 Start Windows and open the Program Manager window;
2 Choose "New" from the Program Manager's "File" menu; the "New Program
Object" window appears;
3 Select the "Program Item" radio button and click the "OK" button; the
"Program Item Properties" window appears;
4 Enter "Xingit! MPEG Player" in the "Description" field, enter the full pathname
of the DMFW.EXE program in the "Command Line" field, and enter the pathname of
the directory that contains the DMFW.EXE program in the "Working Directory"
field, and click the OK button; A new program item "Xingit! MPEG Player"
appears.
5 Double-click the "Xingit MPEG Player" icon to start the program.
The XingIt! MPEG player appears.
You can now use the Xingit! MPEG Player as described in the programs' on-line
help.
To run the DOS version of the player (MPEG.EXE), change to the directory
that contains the MPEG.EXE program and issue the following command:
> MPEG MPEGFILENAME.MPG
Where "MPEGFILENAME" is the name of an MPEG video file.
To see a complete usage description, issue the following command:
> MPEG
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BOOSTING VIDEO PLAYBACK PERFORMANCE
The Xingit! MPEG Player uses a Windows Bitmap driver to communicate with your
PC's video hardware and quickly playback video data on your computer's monitor.
This Device Independent Bitmap (DIB) driver is active by default, so the Player
works with any Windows-compatible video hardware. To achieve even faster playback
of video sequences you can disable the DIB driver and use one of Xingit's direct
drivers. These high-speed drivers communicate directly with many popular video
boards.
To disable the Xingit! MPEG Player's DIB driver and select a direct driver:
1 Make sure "Use DIB" item is unchecked in the Player's "View" menu.
2 Choose an appropriate entry from the "Video Driver" item in the Player's
"View" menu.
If the player recognizes your PC's video driver, it displays your driver's
name at the bottom of the "Video Driver" menu with the label "Detected."
3 Choose "Save Xingit! Preferences" from the "Preferences" menu.
The following direct video drivers are currently provided with the Xingit!
MPEG Player (actual compatibility has not been tested with all of the listed
boards and is assumed):
Reso- Col- Supported video board
Video Driver lution: ors:
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ATI VGAWonder 640x480 256 ATI VGA Wonder
Cirrus GD5422 [640x480] &
Cirrus GD5424 [640x480] 640x480 256 Boca SXVGAX5 Super VGA
Cirrus GD5422 [800x600] &
Cirrus GD5424 [800x600] 800x600 256 Boca SXVGAX5 Super VGA
Compaq AVGA 640x480 256 Compaq Advanced VGA
Dell Jaws VGA
S3 86C911/924 [256 Color] 640x480 256 Actix GraphicsENGINE
Diamond Stealth VRAM
Genoa WindowsVGA Model 8800/8860
S3 86C801/805 [256 Color] 640x480 256 Actix GraphicsENGINE 32
S3 86C801/805 [Hi Color] 640x480 64k Actix GraphicsENGINE 32
Trident 8900 B/C 640x480 256
TsengET4000/Weitek5186 640x480 256 Orchid Prodesigner IIs
Everex Viewpoint
Diamond Speedstar
Cardinal VGA 700/732
Boca Super VGA
STB Powergraph/Powerview
Video 7 HT-209D/216 Video7 VRAM II
Video7 Win-VGA
Video7 VGA 1024i
Diamond Speedstar 24X
Western Digital WD90Cxx 640x480 256 Compuadd Windows Accelerator
If your PC's video driver does not appear in this list, you must use
one of Xingit!'s device independent bitmap (DIB) driver.
NOTE FOR USERS WITH COMPAQ Q-VISION VIDEO
The Xing Video drivers embedded within MPEG320.DLL & MPEG160.DLL
are compatible for operation with the Compaq Advanced VGA, with which
QVision boards are backward compatible. But, you cannot use
QVision Windows drivers with our video file. Rather you must ensure
that the Advanced VGA driver is installed for the QVision adapter board.
1 The Windows video driver installed via the windows SETUP icon should
first be changed to the CPQAVGA.DRV driver. If this cannot be done
within the SETUP program of Windows, you must accomplish this by
manually editing the SYSTEM.INI file:
Look in SYSTEM.INI and locate the parameter
display.drv=QVISION8.DRV
and change it to
display.drv=CPQAVGA.DRV
Using the display driver disk supplied by COMPAQ, locate the file
CPQAVGA.DRV and copy it to the \SYSTEM subdirectory of your \WINDOWS
2 Using the COMPAQ supplied utility program CPQSETUP.EXE it will be
necessary to assure that the D/A converter (DAC) is selected to 8-bit
operation.
3 Within the Xingit! MPEG Player Demo program, use the menu to select
the Xing Video driver for Compaq
select: View - Video Driver - Compaq AVGA.