IBM ThinkPad October 01, 1998 MPEG Features Disk III for WinNT 4.0 Version 1.47 ================================================= What This Diskette Does ----------------------- This driver diskette contains the IBM MPEG-2 Multimedia Driver for Windows NT 4.0. After you install the MPEG-2 driver, you will be able to playback the MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 HHR compatible MPEG video clips using Windows NT Media Player. This hardware MPEG Feature will provide you the better performance for the motion pictures, animations with the less system/CPU overhead. Supported Models ---------------- - ThinkPad 770X Released Version ---------------- Version 1.47 Initial release Summary of Changes ------------------ Where: Diskette version (For example, 1.00 means Version 1.00) (New) New function or enhancement (Fix) Correction to existing function (Restriction) Remaining restriction <1.47> -(New) Initial release for ThinkPad770X. Installation instructions: -------------------------- When you install the Windows NT 4.0 MPEG Feature Diskette, you must also install the following device drivers/utility program: - Latest Audio Feature Disk for WinNT - Latest Video Features Disk IV for WinNT4.0 - Latest Utility Disk for WinNT Note: To support the suspend/resume feature using MPEG driver, Utility Disk must be installed as the pre-requisite software. - If you use the ealier version of video display driver, sometimes system hang when you repeat to open and close the MPEG file multiple times. It is required that you will update the Windows NT 4.0 display driver to latest version. If you have not installed these updated drivers, please get the latest drivers from IBM Web site and install them first. Installing MPEG Feature Diskette -------------------------------- 1. Start Windows NT4.0. 2. Insert the installation diskette in the diskette drive. 3. Run "Start Menu" --> "Settings" --> "Control Panel". 4. Double click the mouse on "Multimedia" icon in the "Control Panel" window. 5. "Multimedia Properties" window shows up. Click the mouse on "Devices" tab. 6. Click the mouse on "Add..." button. A window titled Add shows up. It shows a list of drivers. Select "Unlisted or Updated Driver" by double clicking the mouse on the entry. 7. Click the mouse on OK button or hit the Enter key. 8. "Install Driver" window shows up. Enter the drive letter, e.g. "a" corresponding to the Floppy Drive containing our installation diskette, in the window. Click the mouse on "OK" button or hit the Enter key. 9. The window titled "Add Unlisted or Updated Driver" will show up the following device: "(MCI) IBM MPEG-2 Decoder" Click on "OK" button or hit the Enter key. 10. System does some processing to install the driver. It takes a few seconds and then the window titled "MPEG Configuration" panel shows up. In most cases, you don't need to select any options but can use the default configuration. So,click the mouse on "OK" button or hit the Enter key. The window disappears. The installation procedure is over. Helpful hints how to use the MPEG driver on Windows NT 4.0 --------------------------------------------------------- When you use the MPEG driver on Windows NT 4.0, the following items should be considered since some limitations exist in the driver. 1. Any multimedia player application provided by a third party or a custom player application created for Windows NT is not guaranteed to work with this driver. Only the "Media Player" application (mplay32.exe) is tested and verified. 2. If you have already installed ActiveMovie and Internet Explorer 4.01 included in NT4.0 Service Pack3,you will see the following caution after installed MPEG-2 driver. This warning messages is shown at next NT boot time: "Caution Some of the file type usually associated with ActiveMovie are currently associated with other program. Becuase of this, you may be unable to play certain type of multimedia files. Do you want to fix this (by restoring the file type to ActiveMovie ?) " Select No and click "Don't ask this question again". 3. Running more than one video application which shares the same video hardware is not supported. For example, while an MPEG file is in play, the video capture application will not work. Run one or the other at a time. It is also not supported that you will playback the ActiveMovie while MPEG media player aplication is running. 4. When IBM MPEG-2 Decoder is selected on the Device menu on the Media Player, opening the another Media Player for the Sound/MIDI/Video for Windows/CD Audio is on hold. If it requires using other devices concurrently with MPEG device on Media Player, select these devices first before selecting the IBM MPEG-2 Decoder. 5. Displaying the video window to the external CRT or to TV(NTSC/PAL) is supported. When the video is displayed on these screen, following is the limitation. External CRT: Setting the video mode to the following is not supported: - Any resolution/color depth on 47/87 Refresh Rate, - 800x600 /16M colors with any refresh rate (video memory limitation) - 1600x1200/any colors with any refresh rate (video memory limitation) - 16 colors with any resolution, refresh rate 6. While MPEG file is played using Media Player, suspend/resume is not supported. It is required to pause or stop the playback mode before entering into the suspend mode. 7. While MPEG file is played using Media Player, switch display mode from LCD to external TV out/external CRT is not supported. It is required to pause or stop the playback mode before entering into the switch display mode. Trademarks ---------- IBM and ThinkPad are trademarks of IBM Corporation. Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.