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Cothran, Gregory W.

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May 29, 1996, 3:00:00 AM5/29/96
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Anyone know of a good fast player for these formats?

Greg
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Brian P. Kasper

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May 30, 1996, 3:00:00 AM5/30/96
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VMPEG works pretty well for *.mpg ....

-Brian

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Lucien J. Jacquet

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May 31, 1996, 3:00:00 AM5/31/96
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>-Brian

I've been using Graphics Workshop for Windows for quite some time, and
I really like it. It's shareware (~$40US) from Alchemy Mindworks in
Canada; they're on the Web. It handles the formats you mention, along
with GIF, JPEG, BMP, ICO, PCX, WPG, and many others; converts between
them, scales, adjusts colr depth and quality, you name it.

Lucien

Charles F. McDevitt

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Jun 3, 1996, 3:00:00 AM6/3/96
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> gcot...@b856s2.ssc.af.mil (Cothran, Gregory W.) wrote in article
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> Anyone know of a good fast player for these formats?


The fastest, but buggiest, is Microsoft's own ActiveMovie. This can
be found on their web site under advanced development or something.
It's also on the DirectX 2 Beta 2 CDROMs, if you can find one.

It plays AVI, MOV, and MPG files. On my system, it's fast enough to
play mpeg movies full-screen, which is pretty impressive.
But it's very buggy, so be forwarned.

Lucien J. Jacquet

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Jun 25, 1996, 3:00:00 AM6/25/96
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gcot...@mont.mindspring.com (Cothran, Gregory W.) wrote:

>Anyone know of a good fast player for these formats?

> Greg


>Information provided is of my own opinion and does
>not reflect the opinions of RS Information Systems, Inc.

Greg;

Take a look at Graphics Workshop from Alchemy Mindworks. It's
shareware (US$40) and available on the Web; supports these movie
formats and virtually every known image format (bmp, pcx, jpg, gif,
wpg, ico, tif, and so on), and does conversions between formats, color
reduction and effects, transformations, scaling, "slide shows", etc.
Best I've seen.

Lucien

Charles F. McDevitt

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Jun 27, 1996, 3:00:00 AM6/27/96
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> gcot...@mont.mindspring.com (Cothran, Gregory W.) wrote in article
<3199e9f3....@ra.nrl.navy.mil>...

> Anyone know of a good fast player for these formats?
>

Microsoft has a new player for these formats called ActiveMovie.
It's very fast, but a little buggy. It works best on Win95 or NT 4.0,
since
it seems to use DirectDraw if you have it.
On my NT 4.0 system, it can play MPEG movies full screen without
dropping fames... Very impressive.

ActiveMovie can be downloaded from their WWW site.

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