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                   VCD PowerPlayer

                CyberLink Corporation
             9F, 381 Sec.2, Fu-Hsing S Rd.
                   Taipei, Taiwan
          e-mail: support@cyberlink.com.tw
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Hardware Requirements:
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- Pentium-100MHz PC compatible is required;
- Microsoft Windows 3.1 and above, or Windows 95;
- a hard disk drive with at least 2MB of free space;
- a 4x speed or above CD-ROM drive;
- a sound card with a Windows wave audio driver is required.
- a 256 (or above) color VGA card is required. A VGA card with DCI 
  or DirectDraw support is recommended;
- 8MB system memory is required.

Installing the VCD PowerPlayer on Windows 3.1:
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1 Start Windows 3.1.
2 Insert the VCD PowerPlayer setup disk into drive A.
3 Open the Windows program manager and choose the "Run" command.
4 In the "Run" dialog, type "A:\setup" and click the "ok" button.
5 The VCD PowerPlayer setup program will start.
6 Follow the setup program's on-screen instructions.

Installing the VCD PowerPlayer on Windows 95:
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1 Start Windows 95.
2 Insert the VCD PowerPlayer setup disk into drive A.
3 Choose "Run" from the "Start" menu.
4 In the "Run" dialog, type "A:\setup" and click the "ok" button.
5 The VCD PowerPlayer setup program will start.
6 Follow the setup program's on-screen instructions.

NOTE:
1 This version does not support playback of CD-I under Windows 95.

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RELEASE NOTES TO VCD PowerPlayer
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1 The video display capability supported by VCD PowerPlayer
  includes DCI, Win-G and GDI for Windows 3.1. For Windows 95,
  Direct-Draw and GDI are supported.
2 The audio playback sampling frequencies supported by VCD Powerplayer
  include 44.1KHz, 22KHz and 11KHz. 48KHz and 32KHz audio formats are
  also supported. Both stereo and mono-channel playback are supported.
3 Data formats supported include VCD1.0, VCD1.1, VCD2.0, CD-I and 
  MPEG (.mpg) files.
4 Full-screen, full-motion video playback is supported.
5 MCI driver is supported. The MCI commands supported are listed
  in the following:
  MCI command:
  (capability MpegVideo notify, wait, test)
   capability 
	can record       has audio          has video     
	uses files	 device type        compound device	
	can eject	 can play	    can save
	can lock	 can reverse	    can stretch
	can test 	 can stretch input  has still
	can freeze	 uses palettes	    maximum play rate 	
	minimum play rate 	            windows

  (close MpegVideo notify, wait, test)
   close 

  (configure MpegVideo notify, wait, test)
   configure 

  (info MpegVideo notify, wait, test)
   info 
	file		product		 window text		
	version		audio algorithm  audio quality
	still algorithm			 still quality				usage
	video algorithm			 video quality

  (load MpegVideo notify, wait, test)
   load 

  (open MpegVideo notify, wait, test)
   open 
	type 	   alias      shareable       parent
	style (overlapped, popup, child)      nostatic 
  (pause MpegVideo notify, wait, test)
   pause 

  (play MpegVideo notify, wait, test)
   play 
	from		to		repeat		fast

  (put MpegVideo notify, wait, test)
   put 
	at	destination	window		window client

  (resume MpegVideo notify, wait, test)
   resume 

  (seek MpegVideo notify, wait, test)
   seek 
	to	 to start	to end

  (set MpegVideo notify, wait, test)
   set 
	time format (frames, milliseconds, ms, tmsf, bytes)	
	door open			door closed				
	audio (all, left, right) (on, off)
	video (on, off)			speed 

  (setaudio MpegVideo notify, wait, test)
   setaudio
	source to (left, right, average, stereo)
	volume to
	samplespersec to
	(left,right) (on, off)

  (setvideo MpegVideo notify, wait, test)
   setvideo 
	on	off

  (status MpegVideo notify, wait, test)
   status
	audio 		   length		mode
	number of tracks   current track	position
	ready		   time format		video
	volume		   window handle	window visible
	window minimized   window maximized

  (step MpegVideo notify, wait, test)
   step 
	reverse		key		by

  (stop MpegVideo notify, wait, test)
   stop 

  (where MpegVideo notify, wait, test)
   Where
	source		destination		

  (window MpegVideo notify, wait, test)
   window 
	handle (default)
	state (hide, minimize, restore, show maximized, 
               show min noactive, show minimized, show na,
               show noactivate, show normal, show, no action,
	       minimized)
	text