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XingMPEG Player
Version 1.1
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 Program Manager and choose the "Run" command
from the "File" 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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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.
XingMPEG Player (XMPLAYER.EXE)
- The XingMPEG Player’s "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 window’s "File Duration" field now displays the
correct SMPTE formatted value; previously, calculation of this value
failed to account for the loaded file’s 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.