ÉÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ» º QuickView Pro Ver. 2.51 (DOS) º º º º DOS based Multimedia viewer º º No Windows is required! º ÈÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍͼ For the German documentation please read QV.DOK. QuickView is Shareware. This means that you can test it for at most three weeks. After that period you must register, i.e. pay a small registration fee or discontinue using it. See REGISTER.TXT for details. Features of QuickView ===================== QuickView views the following file formats at present: Video formats ------------- - .AVI, .DIV - .MOV, .QT Supported video codecs for AVI, DIV, MOV and QT: Angel Potion 4 definitive version 1 [AP41] (24 bit) Cinepak [cvid] (8 and 24 bit) CLJR [cljr] (24 bit) Creative Video Blaster [cyuv] (16 bit) DIB (4, 8, 16, 24 and 32 bit) DivX ;-) Low Motion [div3] (24 bit) DivX ;-) Fast Motion [div4] (24 bit) DivX 4 [divx] (24 bit) DivX 5 [dx50] (24 bit) DV Codec [DVSD, DVCS, DVCP, DVC, CDVC] (24 bit) H.263 [H263] (24 bit) I420 (24 bit) Indeo(tm) 3.1, 3.2 and 5 [IV31, IV32 and IV50] (24 bit) Intel I263 H.263 [I263] (24 bit) IYUV (24 bit) Microsoft H.263 [M263] (24 bit) Microsoft MPEG-4 Version 1 [MPG4] (24 bit) Microsoft MPEG-4 Version 2 [MP42] (24 bit) Microsoft MPEG 4 Version 3 [MP43] (24 bit) Motion JPEG [MJPG] (24 bit) MS Video 1 [msvc] (8 and 16 bit) QPEG [QPEG] (V1.0 and 1.1, 8 bit) Rainbow Runner [dmb1] (24 bit) RLE (8 bit) Ultimotion (OS/2 AVIs) [ULTI] (16 bit) V422 (24 bit) VYUY (24 bit) Warcraft3 movie [BLZ0] (24 bit) Xirlink H.263 Video Codec [X263] (24 bit) XVID (24 bit) Y41P (24 bit) YV12 (24 bit) YUY2 (24 bit) YVU9 (24 bit) QuickTime Video Codecs: Animation [rle] (1, 4, 8, 16 and 24 bit) BMP [WRLE] (4, 8 and 24 bit) Component [YUV2] (24 bit) Graphics [smc] (8 bit) JPEG [jpeg] (24 bit) Motion JPEG A [MJPA] (24 bit) None [raw] (4, 8, 24 and 32 bit) Planar RGB [8BPS] (grayscale, 8, 24 and 32 bit) Sorenson v1 [SVQ1] (24 bit) Video [rpza] (16 bit, only HiColor Playback) Supported audio codecs for .AVI and .DIV: A-law Audio MPEG incl. MP3 Creative Labs ADPCM DivX Audio GSM 6.10 IMA ADPCM MS ADPCM PCM u-law Supported audio codecs for .MOV and .QT: A-law IMA ADPCM GSM 6.10 raw twos u-law - .DL: Versions 1,2 and partly 3 - .CEL (Original Animator CEL Files), .FLC, .FLI - .GIF animations - .MPG, .M1V, .MPE, .MPV and .DAT: MPEG 1 video files DAT files are files from the VideoCD that are usually named AVSEQ01.DAT and so on. - VideoCDs and CD-i (partly) are supported using the -VCD command. Picture formats --------------- - .BMP: uncompressed: 1, 4, 8, 16 and 24 color bits RLE compressed: 4 and 8 color bits including OS/2 bitmaps furthermore all kindred formats: .RLE, .DIB, .BGA, .VGA, .RLE, .RL4, .RL8 - .GIF: 1-8 color bits GIF 87a and GIF 89a extensions - .JPG, Baseline and Progressive JPEG, with grayscale, YCrCb or RGB color .JIF, space .JPE: - .PCX: 1-4, 8 and 24 color bits - .TGA: uncompressed: 8, 15, 16 and 24 color bits, black & white RLE compressed: 8, 15, 16 and 24 color bits, black & white Sound formats ------------- - .MP1, Audio MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5, Layer 1,2 and 3 .MP2, .MP3: - .VOC - .WAV: Supported audio codecs are: A-law Audio MPEG incl. MP3 Creative Labs ADPCM DivX Audio GSM 6.10 IMA ADPCM MS ADPCM PCM u-law System Requirements =================== QuickView Pro is a 32 bit protected mode program and therefore needs at least a 80386 processor and a VGA card. It will run under DOS 3.0 or better, or in a DOS shell under Windows 95/98/ME and OS/2. You should take care that you have a VESA 2.0 compliant graphics card or driver as it has a high influence on the video playback performance. For sound support you must have a Sound Blaster compatible sound card (or ESS card), a Gravis UltraSound Classic or MAX, or a Windows Sound System. Installation ============ Simply place all files of the package in the same directory. That's it! QuickView will automatically detect your machine, memory and graphics card. For sound support with a Sound Blaster or compatible you must have the Environment variable BLASTER set containing port address, IRQ and DMA channel or the appropriate ULTRASND variable for the Gravis UltraSound. A Windows Sound System card is autodetected. Since there is no installation necessary, the uninstall can be done easily by deleting all files. Command Line Format =================== The command line format to run QuickView is: QV [options] [file name] Options ------- An Option can start with a "-" or a "/". This documentation uses "-". -M Select 50 line menu mode. QuickView uses 25 line menu mode by default. For 50 lines you can use the -M option. -V Don't use VESA. QuickView autodetects many graphics cards and uses VESA by default. The -V option tells QuickView to not use the VESA interface if installed, but if you want to use HiColor or TrueColor modes the VESA interface must be used. If your graphics card does not support VESA you can use a VESA TSR like Scitech Display Doctor (see below). -B Don't autodetect chipset. This also disables the detection of video chips that are supported with hardware acceleration. -Rx Select screen resolution: x=1: 320x200 x=2: 640x480 x=3: 800x600 x=4: 1024x768 If a mode is not possible auto select will be used. default: auto select. -Wa,b,c,d,e Set sound card parameters a: card type: a=0: no sound card a=1: Sound Blaster or compatible and ESS a=2: Gravis UltraSound Classic or Max a=3: Windows Sound System a=4: enforce Sound Blaster Pro use a=5: encorce Sound Blaster 2.0 use (You can also just use -W4 and -W5 as option. The other parameters will be taken from the BLASTER environment variable.) a=6: PC speaker sound. Note that the quality is low and that it doesn't work under Windows b: port address, hexadecimal c: IRQ d: DMA (for the Sound Blaster 16 or higher: Low DMA channel) e: high DMA channel (only for the Sound Blaster 16 or higher) Example: "-W1,220,5,1" for Sound Blaster, Port 220h, IRQ 5, DMA 1 For no sound card, use -W0 Use the -W parameter only if really necessary, for example if the program crashes when it tries to autodetect a sound card. Please note that your system might crash if you use wrong parameters. -WE,filename: Use external sound driver, example: -WE,D:\QV\VIA.SDR -Ox Set audio volume (x between 0 and 15). -A No sound with videos. -P Preload and decompress AVI and MOV sound in advance. This will give better performance with slower systems, especially if the sound is compressed. However, you have to wait some time until the video begins to play. Preloading the sound will work only if you have sufficient memory of course. Thus, you won't be able to preload the sound of a whole movie since this would require memory in the gigabyte range. You won't get any sound in this case. -D Don't drop frames if behind with AVIs and MPEGs. The sound will automatically be disabled with this option. -4 Don't use 320x240 mode. QuickView will use the 320x240 mode with 256 colors, HiColor or TrueColor mode by default if it allows it to play the video full screen. -Qx Video quality: x=0: TrueColor x=1: HiColor x=2: 256 colors x=3: Grayscale For details see under video options below. The default is HiColor if it was not changed in the config file. Note that not all video codecs offer TrueColor or HiColor quality. -Kx Type of video scaling: x=0: no scaling x=1: 2x scaling x=2: 2x scaling with every second line black x=3: full screen software scaling x=4: full screen hardware scaling. This is avaliable with certain graphics chips only, for a list look below. If hardware scaling is not supported with your hardware, then software scaling will be used. Default: Full screen hardware scaling if available, otherwise software full screen. Note that software full screen requires some CPU power. If you get frame drops, select no scaling with -K0 -UR Keep aspect ratio when showing pictures and videos full screen. -UB Use banked video memory access instead of linear frame buffer. Use this option if QuickView crashes while video playback or when showing pictures. Some VESA BIOSes (for example certain SiS chips) are buggy. -UF Don't show pictures full screen. -US Don't synchronize video playback with the vertical retrace of the monitor. If you use this option you might get tearing artefacts. However, synchronizing takes some time. If you're getting frame drops you should try to use this option. -UI Don't check in advance if the sound with AVI playback will be decoded just in time but assume that there will be no sound buffer underruns. -UPB8 Enforce 8 bit sound -UPB16 Enforce 16 bit sound -UPC1 Enforce mono sound -UPC2 Enforce stereo sound -UPH Enforce half sampling frequency -UPFx Enforce sound sampling frequency x Hertz, example: -UPF22050 Note: Some sound chips do not support all parameters. -UCx Select character set for subtitles. x=0: Western, x=1: Eastern More character sets can be supported in the registered version. -SUBx Select subtitle file for AVI. Example: -SUBd:\videos\film.sub Supported subtitle files are: SRT (SubRip), SSA (Sub Station Alpha), SUB (MicroDVD), SUB (SubViewer), TXT (TMPlayer) -VCDx Start VideoCD playback. x is the track number. If you don't give a track number, track 2 will be assumed for VideoCDs and 1 for CD-i. -VCDSx Same as -VCDx but the second CD drive will be used. -MMX Don't use MMX enhancements for video playback. -RND Shuffle Play. Play the files given with wildcard in a random order (at most 10 in the non-registered version). Example: QV -RND *.MP3 -CAx,y Address of a callback routine. The callback routine will be called periodically during playback so that programmers can call QuickView as external program and get full control over the playback. x=R: Real mode address, then y in the form segment:offset y=P: Protected mode address, then y is the linear address. Further details upon request. -C Don't switch to text mode after playing. -N Don't set video mode. This can be used together with -C, -J, -X and -Y to display graphics around the video for example. You should take care that the color depth of the video mode that is set when you start QuickView is equal to the one that would be selected for the video or picture. -Fx Start AVI/MPEG at frame x, e.g. -F137. -Gx End AVI/MPEG at frame x. -Lx Loop video and MP3 x times respectively, 0 means until key pressed, default for AVI/MOV/MPEG/MP3 is 1, default for CEL/FLI/FLC/DL is 0, default for GIF is the loop counter in the GIF. -Sx Set playback speed of AVI, CEL, DL, FLC, FLI and MPEG files. x is the time between two frames in microseconds. example: -s100000 gives 10 frames per second. The sound of videos will automatically be disabled with this option. -Tx Wait x/100 seconds after playing, 0 means wait for keypress. -Jx,y Size of the video or picture window, x is the horizontal size and y the vertical size. Example: -J300,200 -Xx Position video or picture window at horizontal position x (must be a multiple of 4). -Yx Position video or picture window at vertical position x. -Zx Mouse and keyboard playback control. Each bit of x triggers a certain mouse or keyboard event: bit 0: Mouse move stops bit 1: Left mouse button press stops bit 2: Right mouse button press stops bit 3: Middle mouse button press stops (not supported with all mouse drivers) bit 4: Every key press stops bit 5: Ignore keyboard while playback (not evaluated if bit 4 is set) Example: stop video when mouse is moved or the left mouse button is pressed would be -Z3. -@x Playlist file where x is a file name. Example: qv -@playlist.txt MP3 playlists (M3U files) can also be played: qv -@playlist.m3u A playlist file is a plain text file that contains file names with parameters that QuickView shall play one after another. The meaning of the parameters for each file in the playlist file is the same as described under Command Line Format. The playlist file must be a plain text file that you can write with any editor. It must not be a Word file or anything similar. Command line parameters that you give qv.exe at start are valid for the whole playlist file. Example: qv -R2 -@listfile.txt will use the 640x480 resolution with all pictures and videos in the playlist file. Parameters in a playlist file line are locally and only valid for the specified video, picture or sound file. You can make one loop if you write the following in a separate line: :l It stands for label and defines the position where QuickView shall return when it finds a :g This stands for goto label. Here is an example of a playlist file: -R2 -T100 picture.jpg :l -N -K0 video1.mpg -N -K0 video2.mpg :g It will display picture.jpg with 640x480 resolution for one second. Then it will play video1.mpg and video2.mpg without scaling in a never ending loop while picture.jpg is still visible in the background (if it wasn't overwritten by a video). Note: You can leave this loop only with Alt+X. The non-registered version allows to view at most 10 files with the playlist feature. More details on the meaning of the parameters under Options in the menu. -N, -C, -F, -G, -L, -S, -T, -J, -X, -Y, -Z and -CA are only available in the registered version. All parameters are case-insensitive. filename can be a file that QuickView views or a name that contains the wildcards * and ?. Example: QV -A -Q2 VIDEO.AVI The Menu ======== QuickView always shows you all the files in the current directory, along with all the visible subdirectory names. The arrow keys will move the file selector bar around. CTRL+right or left move the file selector to the next or previous supported file respectively. By pressing a character the file selector bar jumps to the first file starting with that character. Use lower case for files, upper case for directories. A mouse is not supported. To view a file or change a directory just hit Enter. If you try to view a file QuickView does not handle nothing will happen. If you have tagged some files QuickView will view these files without going to the menu in between. Hit Enter or Tab if you want to view the next file and Backspace for the previous one. Esc breaks and returns to the menu. More keys during file selection ------------------------------- ALT+D: Change drive. A drive selection box will appear, prompting you for the drive letter you want to log onto. QuickView will attempt to change to the desired drive. If an error occurs, QuickView will remain logged onto the current drive. F1 : Help. F2 : Display information about the system. F3 or ALT+I: Get information on the currently selected file. ALT+O: Change options of QuickView. For details see below. + - : Increase or decrease resolution respectively. The currently selected resolution is highlighted. "Automatic" automatically selects the lowest resolution which will display the whole picture if possible. Space: Tag/untag the current file. ALT+T: Tag all files in the current directory. ALT+U: Untag all files. ALT+S: Shuffle Play. All files in the current directory are played in a random order. If you've already tagged files, only these files will will be played in a random order. ALT+L: Load subtitle file that will be played together with the next AVI video. Del : Delete file. ALT+X: Exit QuickView. Options in the menu =================== Press the red characters to toggle the state of the option. You can also use the up/down arrow keys and the Space bar. If you press "C" a configuration file is created or updated. Command line options override the config file. Note that changing the use of VESA is only effective if you leave QuickView and start it again. Include 1280x1024 mode: Some monitors (mainly older ones) don't support the 1280x1024 screen mode. If you tell QuickView to support this mode your monitor might be damaged. Please consult your monitor handbook. 320x240 mode: Many videos and some pictures have the size 320x240. These videos will be displayed full screen if you switch on this option. 160x120 videos will also be displayed full screen if you also switch on 2x Zoom. The 320x240 mode is possible on every VGA card with 256 colors, however with HiColor and TrueColor only if they are supported by the VESA BIOS. 320x240 is a non-standard VGA mode and may cause problems. Turn off 320x240 support in this case. Display images full screen: Note that 2 color pictures will not be scaled. Keep video/picture ratio with scaling: Use the video/picture ratio instead of the 4:3 ratio of the monitor. Video options ------------- - Sound support: Play the sound of the videos? - Preload sound: Look at -P command line option. - Never drop frames: If you use this option, no frames will be dropped if the system is not fast enough. This option automatically disables sound. - Loop: Use this if you want an AVI, MOV, MPEG or MP3 file to start again after playing. - Sync with monitor: Tearing artefacts can be avoided if frames are only updated when the monitor is in VSync. Note that you might get less frames per seconds if the option is enabled. - Video quality (these options depend on the codec used): Grayscale: Usually the fastest playback mode 8 color bits: 256 colors HiColor: 32768 or 65536 colors depending on the graphics card's features TrueColor: Will give the best quality with more than 16 million colors. Note: QuickView will use at most the amount of colors that the codec uses. - Video Scale: Type of video scaling. Available options are: no scaling 2x zoom: The video will be played twice as big. Note that 2x Zoom might require a higher screen resolution so that the video doesn't appear bigger. 2x zoom with black lines: the same as 2x zoom but here every second line remains black. This helps to speed up the display. It is only supported with HiColor. Otherwise, 2x zoom without black lines will be used. Software full screen: The video will be played full screen using software scaling. This is CPU very CPU intensive. On slower systems use one of the previous options. Hardware full screen: The graphics chip's hardware scaling and color space conversion facilities will be use to play the video full screen. This is currently supported for the follwing graphics chips: S3 Vision 868 and 968, S3 Virge, Virge DX/GX, Virge GX/2, Trio64V+ and Trio64V2, more to follow. Commands While Viewing ====================== For all file types ------------------ Esc: Stop viewing. Enter or Tab: View next file. Backspace: View previous file. + -: increase and decrease the sound volume respectively. ALT+X: Leave QuickView immediately. For pictures ------------ Arrow keys: Scroll picture if it is larger than the screen. Ctrl+Arrow keys: Scroll fast. Home, End: Scroll to left or right border respectively. PGup, PGdown: Scroll to upper or lower border respectively. +, - : Increase or decrease resolution respectively. For all video files (AVI, CEL, DL, FLI, FLC, animated GIFs, MOV, MPEG) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Space: Pause Viewing, space again: next frame, any other key: continue. T: Time display For the video files AVI, CEL, DL, FLI and FLC --------------------------------------------- arrow key up, down: play faster and slower respectively. Please note that you must disable the sound of the AVI to be able to change the playback speed. This can be done either with the command line option -A or in the options by unchecking "sound". For AVI, MPEG and MP3 files --------------------------- Arrow-key left, right: forward, rewind respectively. Ctrl+Arrow-key left, right: fast forward, rewind respectively. For AVI with subtitles ---------------------- B: Toggle between black and transparent background Questions & Answers =================== -Q: Sound problems like: The sound doesn't work at all. The sound card isn't detected. Videos stop after the first frame. Sound parts are repeated over and over again. The sound quality is poor. A: Most of the time the reason for these problems are incorrect sound card settings in the BLASTER environment variable. There must be a command in your AUTOEXEC.BAT like this: SET BLASTER=Axxx Ix Dx Hx Pxxx Tx with A: Sound Blaster base I/O-port, I: IRQ, D: DMA low channel, H: DMA high channel (only required for SB16 or higher), P: MIDI port (not evaluated), T: Sound Blaster Type (not evaluated) Usual values are: A220, I5 or I7, D1, H5. If I5 does not work for you, try I7 and vice versa. For the original Sound Blaster there is a program called "DIAGNOSE.EXE" which programs the sound card configuration according to the values in the BLASTER variable. Use "DIAGNOSE /S" in your "AUTOEXEC.BAT". Under http://www.multimediaware.com/qv/sbdetect.zip there is a program that low level detects the Sound Blaster settings. For the Gravis UltraSound there must be the environment variable "ULTRASND". If your sound card is not detected properly, you can set the sound card parameter directly using the -W parameter. If the system info (F2 in the menu) says that a sound card was detected but you can't hear it with any file then check the volume. You can increase the volume with "+" while playback. If you don't get sound with videos but with MP3, WAV and VOC files then check if you enabled "Never drop frames". This will automatically disable sound. If you don't get sound with some AVI or MOV files only this might be because they are using an unsupported audio codec. Check what audio codec the video uses by pressing File Info (F3). If you either get the message "unsupported" or "unknown" then this audio codec is currently unsupported. Other possible reasons are insufficient memory or a truncated file. If your sound chip cannot be made Sound Blaster compatible you can use an external sound driver. For the current status of the supported sound chips look at: http://www.multimediaware.com/qv/snddrv/ -Q: The video is played jerky. The sound is played with interruptions. A: If the video itself wasn't captured with a low frame rate, this usually indicates that your system is too slow. QuickView will not show all frames of the video so that the sound can be played without interruptions. But this can also fail if your system is far too slow. In order to improve the video playback with slow systems you should: - Select no scaling - Use preload sound - Try the -w4 or -w5 parameters to enable Sound Blaster Pro (8 bit stereo with 22050Hz max. sampling frequency) or Sound Blaster 2.0 (8 bit mono with 22050Hz max. sampling frequency) compatibility. Both can save the CPU cycles. Or use the -UP parameters directly, especially -UPH - Choose a lower number of colors - Disable sync with monitor - Try copying the file to your hard disk instead of playing it from CD. If there are problems with the playback of certain AVI videos, then try the -UI Option. -Q: Why is the video quality bad with some videos? A: This might be because you don't have a TrueColor or HiColor card or you don't have a VESA driver in your system. In the latter case you should use the VESA TSR for your graphics card or Scitech Display Doctor, available on many FTP-servers, BBSs, from Shareware distributors or on my WWW page. The VESA driver must conform at least to version 1.2 of the VESA standard. Versions prior to 1.2 of the VESA standard did not define TrueColor and HiColor modes. -Q: I get memory error messages with some files. What can I do? A: Select a lower number of colors, e.g. HiColor instead of TrueColor. Turn off sound. -Q: I can't forward and rewind AVIs. A: Either the AVI has no index or a bad index, or it does not have keyframes, or there is not enough memory. -Q: The text screen is messed up after hardware scaling was used. A: Scaling doesn't work properly with your graphics card. Choose a different scaling type than hardware full screen. -Q: I get some lines on the graphics screen with my ATI Mach graphics card under Windows 95/98. A: Try M64VBE with parameter S -Q: I get a black or garbled screen when I start QuickView. A: Try starting the program with the parameter -B. -Q: I don't have a sound card and I'd like to hear the sound through the PC speaker. A: Use the -W6 parameter. -Q: I like 50 line menus more. How can I select this mode permanently? A: Press ALT+O in the menu. Then you can select 50 lines with "5" and write a config file with "C". -Q: What do I have to do to make QuickView run under OS/2? A: You have to set the following definitions for the DOS session: INT_DURING_IO: ON IDLE_SENSIVITY: 100 HW_TIMER: ON VIDEO_RETRACE_EMULATION: OFF AUDIO_ADAPTER_SHARING: REQUIRED DPMI_DAS_API: ENABLED Make sure the BLASTER or ULTRASND environment variable is set properly. The OS/2 Sound Blaster drivers seem to have a DMA handling problem in a DOS session which sometimes causes a lockup with sound output. Try to get an updated sound card driver. If that doesn't help, please either turn off sound or run the program under plain DOS. Also, some OS/2 sound drivers don't handle 16 bit sound properly. If you only hear a strange noise use the -w4 parameter to enable Sound Blaster Pro compatibility. -Q: How do I use QuickView's AVI, MOV, MPEG video and audio support with Arachne (DOS WWW browser)? A: You should use the APM package of QuickView that is available under http://www.multimediaware.com/qv/qv.apm. The MIME types will be configured automatically. -Q: What is a codec? A: Video and audio sequences are compressed and decompressed by routines called codecs (short for compressor/decompressor). A codec is responsible for compressing raw video or audio data into a format suitable for distribution. When you play the compressed video or audio sequence, the codecs integrated in QuickView perform a reverse role, converting the compressed data into images or sound that can be played on your system. -Q: Is QuickView year 2000 compliant? A: Yes. -Q: I have problems with VideoCD and CD-i playback A: Not all CD drives allow proper raw reading of CDs which is necessary for VideoCD and CD-i playback. This especially applies to Windows. For playback of VideoCDs under Windows access the videos as normal files that are usually named AVSEQ01.DAT, AVSEQ02.DAT and so on. On the other hand, most DOS CD drivers do not support reading of these files under DOS. The directory is visible but the files itself cannot be accessed. Use the -VCD command under DOS to play a VideoCD or CD-i. Some CD drives spin down the motor too fast after reading. When new data is required they take a few seconds until they are active again. This results in playback pauses. If your CD driver allows to increase the spin down time you should try this. How to get an up-to-date version of QuickView: ============================================== The file name of the package is always qvproxxx.zip where xxx is the version number. Note that some BBSs use a different archiver than ZIP. - Internet WWW: The QuickView Pro Homepage: http://www.multimediaware.com/qv/ You will get the latest version including minor revisions and beta test versions there. Major releases are also available from SimTel: http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/48042.html - Internet FTP: Official FTP distribution site (you will find the most recent version here including minor revisions): ftp://ftp.multimediaware.com/qv - Via email: Send an email to requestqv@multimediaware.com, subject and body don't matter. There is an autoresponder that will send you the latest version automatically within a few minutes. - You'll get the latest version when registering. How to contact the author ========================= Please report all bugs and suggestions for improvements or enhancements. If you report any problems please give a detailed description of the problem, together with a list of the hardware you use and what QuickView version you use. I'm also very interested in files that QuickView claims to show but doesn't play or display correctly. Feel free to contact me. You may use one of the following ways: My Internet address (this is the preferred way): qv@multimediaware.com If you don't get a reply within a week please send it again. Emails can get lost. If you don't have email access here is my snail mail address: Wolfgang Hesseler Neustadter Str. 6 53547 Rossbach Germany Please include return postage, using International Postal Coupons if you are outside Germany. Contact me if you are interested in video playback with your application. There are external AVI, MOV, MPEG or FLI/FLC players and libraries for various programming languages. This program is Shareware. You may test this unregistered version for at most three weeks but after that you must register. You are encouraged to share it with others and to upload it to a BBS. If you do so, please pass along the complete unmodified archive. All files must be included. ATTENTION: A registration is required for any commercial use. Legal Stuff =========== This program is copyrighted 1994-2003 by Wolfgang Hesseler, all rights reserved. This Software is provided "AS IS". The author makes no warranty of any kind either expressed or implied. In particular the author makes no warranty as to merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose or a particular hardware configuration. Furthermore the author is not responsible for any damages of any kind, including profit losses and data loss or other incidental or consequential damages arising out of your use or inability to use the program. The person using the software bears all risk as to the quality and performance of the software. All files belonging to QuickView contain proprietary information which are protected by copyright. This includes reverse engineering, decompiling and disassembling. No part may be altered or translated without the prior written consent of the author. Any violation of the copyright will be prosecuted by the author and by Intel. EXPORT LAWS: You agree that this Software is not intended to be shipped either directly or indirectly to country groups Q,S,W,Y,Z,Afghanistan or the People's Republic of China, unless a validated export license is obtained from the U.S. Department of Commerce. APPLICABLE LAW: This Agreement is governed by the laws of Germany, the State of California and the United States, including patent and copyright laws. The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of this agreement will not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision of this agreement. License agreement for Shareware distributors: Shareware distributors may distribute this program if no files of the package are left out or modified. The information about some codecs is from XAnim. Thanks to Mark Podlipec. Thanks to Edd SonicSound for providing sound processing algorithms. Cinepak is a trademark of Radius. Indeo and the Indeo Logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the USA and other countries. QPEG is a registered trademark of Q-Team Dr. Knabe GmbH, www.q-team.de This product uses Ultimotion(tm) IBM video technology. Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 1994, All rights reserved. The GSM 6.10 support is based on code from the Communications and Operating Systems Research Group at the Technische Universitaet Berlin; Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994 by Jutta Degener and Carsten Bormann. The MPEG Audio Code is based in part on MPG123; Copyright (c) 1995-98 by Michael Hipp, all rights reserved. The Graphics Interchange Format(c) is the Copyright property of CompuServe Incorporated. GIF(sm) is a Service Mark property of CompuServe Incorporated. TARGA is a registered trademark of Truevision, Inc. This software is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group. This product includes software developed by DivX DivXNetworks, Inc. DivX is a trademark of DivXNetworks, Inc, www.divx.com This product uses parts of ffmpeg, Copyright (c) Fabrice Bellard, ffmpeg.sourceforge.net QuickTime is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. All other product names mentioned in this software are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.