//++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ MEDIAMATICS MPEG ARCADE(tm) Player (C) 1993, 1994, 1995 Mediamatics Inc. //++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This is the Release 1.20.15 of the Mediamatics MPEG Arcade(TM) Player. This is a OM-1 compatible MCI driver enabling software only decode of MPEG-1 streams. The playback of VideoCD, CD-I and CD_Karaoke disks is availabe by using the "Mediamatics VideoCD Arcade Player" Device entry. This player reads MPEG-1 System, Video and Audio Streams of upto 1.5Mbits/sec from hard disk or ISO/High Sierra CD-ROMs and plays back on a DCI enabled graphics subsystem. Configuration: -------------- Whenever you change any configuration - either the Audio or Video quality from the Device/Configure Dialog - please stop playing all clips and exit all running instances of Media Player. New settings will take effect when Media Player is re-run. Also, use the same settings for all instances of Media Player - you cannot choose to have different setting for different clips. Hardware Requirements: --------------------- (1) Any 8/16 bit Wave Card with Windows Drivers. The factory default is 16bit PCM Wave data. For 8 bit Cards - please configure the driver using Control Panel/Drivers/Setup (2) Pentium 75/90Mhz Processor based System with 256K second level cache. (3) For playback of CD's - any CD-ROM drive with < 10% CPU utilization while reading 170Kb/sec (see NewMedia Magazine article 1/6/95 - pp 22). capable of CD-I or VideoCD playback. Installation: ------------- 1. Please install the Windows 3.1 graphics driver and Video For Windows 1.1E. 2. Please install Mediamatics MPEG Arcade(tm) Player by running the program SETUP.EXE in the \SW_MPEG\WIN31 directory on this CD-ROM. Performance Tuning ------------------ Use a high performance CD-ROM subsystem for playback of ISO MPEG CD's i.e. - any CD-ROM drive with less than 10% CPU utilization while reading 150Kb/sec. (see NewMedia Magazine article 1/6/95 - pp 22). The amount of CPU time consumed by your HardDisk driver or the CD-ROM device driver is the main culprit in systems with poor performance. The best performance is obtained by using Enhanced IDE HardDisks and Enhanced IDE CD-ROM drives connect to PCI IDE controllers. SCSI Disks and SCSI CD-ROMS connected to PCI SCSI controllers also offer good performance. A performance drop of 20-40% (as seen by 20-40% poorer framerate) will be seen in systems with slow HardDisk or CD-ROMs. Examples are older hard disks connected to ISA bus based IDE controllers which take 10% of the CPU (Pentium 90) to read 150kbytes/sec. ISA bus based CD-ROM controllers take typically 30-40% CPU to read 150kbytes/sec - rendering your Pentium 90 to the level of a Pentium 60 at best. In comparison, an Enhanced IDE hard disk connected to a PCI IDE controller takes about 3% CPU, and an Enhanced IDE CD-ROM device driver (again connected to PCI IDE controller) takes as low as 6-8% CPU when properly configured. MPEG has a very low data-rate unlike AVI files - therefore the overall bandwidth available on the drive is not as important as the amount of CPU time consumed while reading data from the drive. Make sure your Pentium system has a second level cache (at least 256K) and that it is enabled. Enhanced IDE configuration tips: Use Enhanced IDE hard disks and Enhanced IDE CD-ROM. Connect only Enhanced IDE components to the PCI IDE controller on your motherboard. Any non-enhanced IDE components on the PCI-IDE controller force the entire IDE system to operate at normal IDE speeds (about 2Mbytes/sec). Enhanced IDE offers upto 10Mbytes/sec I/O speed. Enhanced IDE controllers connected to the ISA bus will not give you the same performance as a PCI motherboard IDE controller.Download Driver Pack
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