README.TXT For REALmagic Ultra(TM) Version 2.33 -- 4/11/97 ========================================================== Congratulations on your purchase of the REALmagic Ultra MPEG multimedia playback controller. This file contains important information not available at the time the manual was printed. Please take time to read through it for the latest updates. /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /// IMPORTANT NOTES FOR A SUCCESSFUL INSTALLATION /// ============================================= /// - The Ultra board is shipped with the sound card capabilities /// of the board disabled (PCM sound). /// This does not affect the playback of the audio part of your /// MPEG file. /// /// ENABLING SOUND /// -------------- /// If you do not have a sound card and you want to enable the /// sound card capabilities of the Ultra, please do the /// following : /// 1 - Insert the Ultra board in one of the ISA slots. /// 2 - Boot the system in DOS mode (even for a Win 95 system). /// 3 - Run the batch file SOUND.BAT with the command : /// A:\> sound /y /// 4 - Reset the system and reboot. /// 5 - Run the installation procedure. /// /// DISABLING SOUND /// --------------- /// To disable the sound do the following : /// 1 - Uninstall the REALmagic software. /// 2 - Run the batch file SOUND.BAT with the command : /// A:\> sound /n /// 3 - Reset the system and reboot. /// 4 - Run the installation procedure. /// /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// CONTENTS ======== 1 - SOFTWARE INSTALLATION a - NOTES ON SETUP Windows 3.x i - Improved Error Handling ii - Command Line Options b - PnP INSTALLATION Windows 95 i - CHANGING A RESOURCE 2 - BORDER ADJUSTMENT AND CALIBRATION (enabling NTSC port) 3 - REALmagic MIXER 4 - FILTER PROGRAM 5 - TV SET PROGRAM 6 - RUNNING DOS TITLES 7 - ISSUES with PROTECTED MODE 32 bit CDROM DRIVERS 8 - SPECIAL FOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS OF MPEG TITLES 9 - REALmagic FILE DESCRIPTIONS 10 - MISCELLANEOUS 11 - NOTES FOR USERS OF THE "SIS AMBRA" MOTHERBOARD 1 - SOFTWARE INSTALLATION ===================== NOTE : a - This release installs an OM-1 Compliant DOS driver (OM1DRV.EXE) with the following entry in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file : SET OM1=C:\REALMAGC\OM1DRV.EXE b - If after installation on a Plug-and-Play motherboard, at booting time the driver in the blue panel gives the error message "Board not installed" or "Board not detected", you need to add the following line in CONFIG.SYS file before the MPGDEV.SYS file : DEVICE=C:\REALMAGC\DWCFGMG.SYS a - NOTES ON SETUP Windows 3.x ============== i - Improved Error Handling ----------------------- It is possible that with some hardware configurations, the I/O address, IRQ, and DMA channel scanning done by the SETUP program will cause the system to crash (in almost all cases, this is due to poor resource management of another component). If the progress bar of the testing screen seems to freeze for over a minute, it is most likely that the system has crashed. The SETUP program maintains a status file in the root directory of your boot drive. If the system crashes during the scanning, SETUP will make a note in the status file. When your system reboots, re-run SETUP that will automatically continue scanning your system, skipping the IRQ, I/O address, or DMA channel test that had caused the system to crash previously. This process may repeat before all of the offending causes are eliminated. If there are no errors, the status file is automatically deleted upon the completion of SETUP. Note: It is possible that if you use a disk caching program other than the Microsoft SMARTDRV (version 4.0 or later), the status file will not be updated if the system crashes. This is most likely to occur for a delayed write type of disk cache program. In such instances, disable the disk write caching program in the CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT file before running SETUP again. ii - Command Line Options -------------------- You can manually disable the scanning of the I/O address, IRQ, and DMA channels. Modify the SETUP command line to look as follows : SETUP /NOTEST Also, if SETUP still crashes while trying to identify the board, you can force the board ID by adding the parameter /ULTRA as follows SETUP /ULTRA You can combine the parameters as follows : SETUP /NOTEST /ULTRA b - PnP INSTALLATION for Windows 95 ---------------------------------- After the hardware installation, do the following : 1 - Boot your system. 2 - After the Windows 95 logo display, the system will recognize that a new board was installed (Plug-N-Play feature of the REALmagic Ultra board). You will get the window "New Hardware Found" with the REALmagic Ultra signature. 3 - Choose the option "Driver from disk provided by hardware manufacturer". 4 - Click OK. 5 - A new window "Install from Disk" will display. Insert the REALmagic Ultra diskette in your floppy drive. Make sure the text box specifies the correct drive specifier ( e.g. A:\). Click OK. 6 - If the sound capabilities are enabled you will get the message "REALmagic Ultra MPEG", if not the message will be "REALmagic Ultra". Click OK. 7 - Windows will copy the files from diskette to the C:\REALMAGC directory. 8 - In case the sound card capabilities are enabled, the system will display "REALmagic Ultra Sound". Select "Windows default drivers". 9 - Click on Start. Choose Run. Type C:\REALmagc\SETULTRA.EXE from the hard disk. Click OK. 10- Reboot the system (Start, Shut Down, Restart System). i - CHANGING A RESOURCE (for Advanced Users) in Windows 95 ------------------- If you wish to change a resource (I/O address or/and IRQ number) assigned by the Plug N Play feature of Win 95, do the following : 1- Start System from the the Control Panel group. 2- Choose Device Manager and double-click on "Sound, video, and game controllers". 3- Double-click on "Sigma Designs REALmagic Ultra ...". 4- Select the tab "Resources". 5- Double-click on the required resource. Click "Change Settings". 6- Modify the settings to the required value. Make sure there is NO conflict specified in the Conflict Information box. Click OK. 7- Reboot. 2 - BORDER ADJUSTMENT AND COLOR CALIBRATION ======================================= NOTE : You must set the Border Adjustment and Color Calibration settings to finalize the installation. You need to set the Border Adjustment and Color Calibration only once for each display settings (resolution, number of colors, and refresh rate) under Windows, and run Border Adjustment only one time in the DOS mode. This utility can be called also from the RM Mixer utility. Windows: ------- 1- Start Border Adjust program in the REALmagic group. 2- Use the H-POS and V-POS buttons to align the top left corner of the black and magenta rectangles, then use the H-SIZE buttons to resize the black rectangle to cover exactly the magenta area. This should work for the majority of the VGA boards available. IMPORTANT NOTE : For the following rare cases :- a -If the black area height is HALF the magenta area height, click the button "NI" (non-interlaced) and then "EXIT". Restart "Border Adjust". b -If the black area height is DOUBLE the magenta area height, click the button "I" (interlaced) and then "EXIT". Restart "Border Adjust". It is recommended NOT to use the buttons "NI" and "I" other than the above indicated conditions. 3- Click the Save button to save the settings. 4- If you observe jittering at the right or left edge on the aligned black box, click on the Horizontal Stability "+" and "-" buttons until you get the smoothest sides among the 16 values. 5- Next, click the Auto button to automatically calibrate the color for your VGA card. Color bars will be displayed on the screen followed by a vertical white line flashing in the middle of a black screen. When the Border Adjust program is redisplayed, calibration is complete. - If you are using the SVGA drivers of Windows 3.x, add the following line in the [VGA] section of the file FMPDRV.INI in the REALMAGC directory: SVGA = 1 (If you select manual calibration, then follow the instructions provided on the screen to adjust the colors in three steps.) 6- Click the Done button. DOS: --- 1- At the DOS prompt (in Real Mode MS-DOS FOR Windows 95), type DOSCALIB and press <Enter>. 2- Repeat step 2 above - aligning the black and magenta borders - (and 4 if necessary - smoothing the jittering) and press Exit. This procedure will repeat THREE times for text and graphics modes. 3 - REALmagic MIXER =============== The mixer incorporates four faders for the audio setting and three for the video. The audio faders control audio MPEG, the PCM,and CD-Audio levels. The fourth fader (Main) controls the output to the speakers. The three other faders are TV set-like faders for the following : - Fader "B" for Brightness Control - Fader "C" for Contrast Control - Fader "S" for Saturation Control You can adjust these faders while playing an MPEG file for a better control of your setting. There is also a button for "Border Adjust and Calibration". Just click it to activate this utility. 4 - Filter Program ============== This program is a demo feature to show you the difference in having the filtering option or not having it when playing back an MPEG file. For a better display you should have the filter On. "Up" and "Down" refer to upscaling and downscaling. The difference is very clear if you zoom in the video playback with the right button of your mouse running the CD Station application. 5 - TV Set Program ============== This program is meant mainly to enable/disable the port to your TV Set. You can use it to position the display, select between NTSC and PAL systems, and choose the best anti-flicker filter mode. Turn your Windows display driver to VGA mode to match the scan rate of your TV set. NOTE 1: In order to be able to see the VGA output on the TV monitor, you should have your resolution at 640x480 and the refresh rate 60Hz (you can also use 800x600 for PAL TVs only). The native VGA mode of Windows provides these settings. NOTE 2: In the DOS environment, run the commands "TV ON"/"TV OFF" to enable/disable the TV port respectively. Also you will find the program DOSNTSC.EXE or DOSPAL.EXE to adjust the refresh rate of your monitor to match that of the NTSC or PAL TV set respectively. 6 - RUNNING DOS TITLES (on a Windows 95 system) ================== The way DOS works has slightly changed under Windows 95. In order to optimize performance of DOS MPEG titles, please run the titles in the real mode MS-DOS: 1- Select "Shut Down" from the Taskbar (after quitting Windows applications). 2- Select "Restart the computer in MS-DOS mode". 3- At the DOS prompt after reboot, enter the command for the title, such as : C:\>D: D:\>DOSTITLE 4- To start Windows after exiting from the title, type : c:\>EXIT <Enter> NOTE : ==== If the ULTRA SOUND does not function properly in DOS, it might be that Windows 95 assigned different resources than the ones used by DOS. In this case, make sure that you have the following line in AUTOEXEC.BAT file. SET BLASTER=Annn Ix Dy Hz T6 where nnn is the hex port address, x the IRQ number, y the 8 bit DMA channel (0, 1, or 3), and z the 16 bit DMA channel (5, 6, or 7). These values can be seen in the FMPDRV.INI file (REALMAGC directory) or using the "Control Panel - System - Device Manager". 7 - ISSUES with PROTECTED MODE 32 bit CDROM DRIVERS: ================================================== If you play VideoCD's in the Protected Mode of the CD-ROM driver (32 bits) and the CD-ROM drive is installed as a slave drive on its own controller (if it is an IDE drive), the playback wll suffer some breaking. This is not hte case in Win 95 OSR2. Solution : Install the CD-ROM drive as a MASTER drive on a secondary IDE controller, use the Real Mode, or install the patch IOSUPD.EXE dated 8/15/96 from MicroSoft web page. NOTE : CDi movies (Green Book standard) can be played only in Real Mode. Real Mode is activated by removing the CD-ROM controller from the Device Manager, adding the CD-ROM driver in the CONFIG.SYS, and re-activating the MSCDEX.EXE line that was used before Windows 95 installation. 8 - SPECIAL FOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS OF MPEG TITLES ============================================== Versions 2.21/2.30 of REALmagic drivers are using a new algorithm to reach the best accuracy in Frame Seeking. This might not work for titles developed using earlier versions of REALmagic drivers. To force the driver to use the old algorithm, modify or add the following line in the [MCI] section of the FMPDRV.INI in the REALMAGC directory to be : SeekAccurate=False 9 - REALmagic FILE DESCRIPTIONS =========================== The following are the descriptions of the files contained in the REALmagic directory: CBARS VBS Video BitStream file CDIMOVIE DR_ CD-i/Video CD movie driver CTL3D DLL 3D resource file for the Windows 3.x Setup program DIGITALV MC_ MCI Digital Video translation table DOSCAL EX_ Border adjustment and color calibration program for DOS DOSCALIB BA_ Batch file to run calibration software in DOS DOSMIX EX_ Mixer program for DOS DOSNTSC EX_ Program to change the monitor refresh rate to NTSC match DOSPAL EX_ Program to change the monitor refresh rate to PAL match DRAGON BA_ Batch file to run Dragon's Lair using DOS MPEG driver DSP BI_ Audio DSP code EGAVGA BG_ EGA graphics library EMPEGDEC DL_ File for high resolution pictures in MPEG FILTER EX_ Filtering On/Off program FLYLOGO EX_ Test program FMPDRV EX_ MPEG driver for DOS FMPDRV IN_ Initialization file IMPEG DR_ Driver for Windows 95 MCIFMP DR_ MCI driver MPGBKGND TS_ Background Task file to help low-level driver MPGCONF EX_ Border adjustment and color calibration program for Windows MPGDEV SY_ MPEG device driver MPGPIC BI_ MPEG DSP code MPGSCSVR SC_ Screen saver MPGSND DR_ Sound driver for Windows MPGTEST BA_ Batch file to verify hardware installation MPGWMIX EX_ Mixer program for Windows OM1DRV EX_ OM-1 DOS Compliant driver README TXT Text file containing updates and technical notes REALMAGC GRP Windows group file REBOOT COM Program to reboot the computer RM ID Identification file RMSETUP DLL Setup library RMTESTS DLL Test library SETULTRA EXE Program to complete Windows 95 installation SETUP EXE Setup program for Windows 3.x SETUP INI Initialization file for the Setup program SETUPLGO BMP Setup program logo bitmap file SSCONFIG EX_ Screen saver configuration program TEST BA_ Batch file to run DOS MPEG file player TESTFMP EX_ MPEG file player for DOS TV EX_ DOS program to turn on/off the TV port UNINSTAL EX_ Un-install program for Windows 95 UPDATE EXE Update program U_MPEG INF Installation information program for MPEG U_SOUND INF Installation information program for Sound VGA256 BG_ VGA graphics library VGA2TV EX_ TV Set program to enable/disable TV port VPLAYER EX_ Video CD player for DOS WVPLAYER EX_ CD Station program WVPLAYER HL_ CD Station program help file YUV2RGB DL_ File for High Resolution pictures in MPEG 10 - MISCELLANEOUS ============= Help for REALmagic CD Station ----------------------------- Windows On-Line Help is available for the REALmagic CD Station from the Control Menu Box or just press <F1> key any time. Pull down the Control Menu Box and select Help!. Then select the topic you want from the list. Playing DRAGON'S LAIR --------------------- Dragon's Lair requires the REALmagic DOS driver to be loaded in memory before it will play. We provide a batch file in the REALmagic directory called DRAGON.BAT that handles all this for you. To play Dragon's Lair, place the CD in your CD-ROM drive and type: CD \REALMAGC and press <Enter> DRAGON and press <Enter> Note: the batch file assumes your CD-ROM drive letter is "D". If this is not the case, you will need to use a text editor to modify the batch file. The line which reads: D: should be changed to reflect your CD-ROM's drive letter (e.g. "E:"). Playing THE HORDE ----------------- Make sure your sound card is 100% SoundBlaster(TM) compatible. Some sound cards, such as the Media Vision ProAudio Spectrum 16(TM) and boards that use the Media Vision PAS 16(TM) chip set, will not work with The Horde (no sound). Crystal Dynamics has provided a fix for this in the form of a new HORDE.EXE. It is available on the Sigma Designs BBS for download. Another sound card, the Sound Galaxy Pro(TM) from Aztech, requires a special command when starting The Horde. Modify the PLAY.BAT file in the \HORDE directory (created by the INSTALL program) to start The Horde with the command line "HORDE /S:SBLASTER" (between FMPLOAD and FMPLOAD /U). Without this command line option, the volume controls of the Sound Galaxy Pro will be set to zero each time you start The Horde. If you use disk caching programs, such as Microsoft SMARTDRV, you MAY experience hanging problems. If you do, try turning off the "write-caching" to the hard drive where The Horde has been installed. For example, if you use SMARTDRV and The Horde is installed on drive C:, use the command SMARTDRV C to turn off "write-caching" on drive C:. 10 - NOTES FOR USERS OF THE "SIS AMBRA" MOTHERBOARD ============================================== NOTES FOR USERS OF THE "SIS AMBRA" MOTHERBOARD WITH Windows 95 - The performance of the Ultra with this motherboard is normal when its sound card capabilities are disabled. When the sound card is enabled, this motherboard will not be able to start up Windows 95 if the REALmagic software is NOT installed. For users wishing to enable the sound card, it is recommended to do the following : 1 - Install the Ultra board first as an MPEG decoder only. 2 - Uninstall the REALmagic software by running the program "Uninstall" and removing the board from the "Device Manager". 3 - Add the following line in the CONFIG.SYS file : DEVICE=C:\REALMAGC\MPGDEV.SYS assuming the REALmagic software is installed in the REALMAGC directory of the hard disk C:. 4 - Reboot and repeat the installation. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ ( END OF FILE )Download Driver Pack
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