DOCUMENT:Q128231 08-NOV-2001 [homemm] TITLE :WIN 3.1x: VIDC Entries in SYSTEM.INI and Descriptions PRODUCT :Microsoft Home Multimedia Titles PROD/VER::1.0,1.0a,2.0 OPER/SYS: KEYWORDS:win31 ====================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information in this article applies to: - Microsoft Ancient Lands for Windows, version 1.0 - Microsoft Art Gallery for Windows, version 1.0 - Microsoft Asimov for Windows - Microsoft Dangerous Creatures for Windows, version 1.0 - Microsoft Dinosaurs for Windows, version 1.0 - Microsoft Encarta 96 Encyclopedia for Windows - Microsoft Encarta 97 Encyclopedia for Windows - Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 97 Deluxe for Windows - Microsoft Office Professional Edition for Windows - Microsoft Multimedia Schubert for Windows, version 1.0 - Microsoft Multimedia Strauss for Windows, version 1.0 - Scholastic's Magic School Bus series: Explores the Solar System for Windows, version 1.0 - Microsoft Wine Guide for Windows, versions 1.0, 1.0a, 2.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY ======= The following table lists drivers that have the "VIDC" prefix when they are listed in the [DRIVERS] section of the SYSTEM.INI file. The information reflects settings from an installation of the Intel INDEO R3.2 V3.22.01.43 and Video for Windows 1.1a releases. SYSTEM.INI [DRIVERS] Entry Filename Installed by Description ------------------------------------------------------------------------ VIDC.CVID ICCVID.DRV -Ancient Lands CINEPAK codec =ICCVID.DRV -Bookshelf 1994 -Cinemania 1995 Developed by SuperMac, and -Complete licensed to Microsoft. It is a Baseball Guide common off-line video codec used -Complete with CD-ROM titles on both Basketball Macintosh and Windows platforms. -Dangerous It provides good video quality Creatures and playback performance [320-by- -Dinosaurs 240 pixel at 30 frames per -Encarta 94-97 second (fps)]. It is known as an -MS Office asymmetric codec. A codec that Professional takes more time to compress than and Bookshelf to decompress. -Asimov -Wine Guide -Scholastic's Magic School Bus Explores the Solar System VIDC.RT21 INDEOV.DRV -Ancient Lands INTEL'S INDEO(TM) VIDEO R2.1 =INDEOV.DRV -Cinemania 95 -Complete Older version of the Intel Indeo Baseball Guide driver. See R3.2 below for -Complete details. Basketball -Dangerous (Used for backwards Creatures compatibility.) -Encarta 95-97 -MS Office Professional and Bookshelf -Asimov -Scholastic's Magic School Bus Explores the Solar System VIDC.RT31 INDEOV.DRV -Ancient Lands INTEL'S INDEO(TM) VIDEO DRIVER =INDEOV.DRV -Cinemania 95 -Complete Older version of Intel's Indeo Basketball video driver. See R3.2 below -Dangerous for more details. (Used for -Creatures backwards compatibility.) -Encarta 95-97 -MS Office Professional and Bookshelf -Asimov -Scholastic's Magic School Bus Explores the Solar System VIDC.IV32 IR32.DLL -Ancient Lands INTEL INDEO(TM) VIDEO R3.2 =IR32.DLL -Cinemania 1995 -Complete This is the latest release of Basketball Intel's video drivers. It -Dangerous provides good quality video Creatures playback (320-by-240 pixels at -Encarta 95-97 up to 30 fps with 8-bit mono -MS Office audio) on any 486 without Professional additional hardware. Using a and Bookshelf powerful and complex algorithm, -Asimov capable of executing many -Wine Guide different modes of compression, -Scholastic's this driver practically achieves Magic School real-time performance. Bus Explores the Solar This codec uses fixed palette System color control that is located -World of Flight inside the indeo driver, not the AVI file. It uses a 1:1 audio/video interleave thus called an AVI file that compresses the video file into a 24-bit per pixel format. Upon decompression of this file, it is converted into the 9-bit per pixel format and played by the YVU9.DRV (INTEL RAW Driver) file. VIDC.YVU9 INDEOV.DRV -Ancient Lands INTEL'S INDEO(TM) VIDEO RAW =INDEOV.DRV -Cinemania 95 -Complete This Indeo driver converts each Basketball video frame into a 9-bit per -Dangerous pixel YUV color space and is Creatures used uncompressed. It is a -Encarta 95-97 color encoded scheme used for -MS Office natural pictures in which the Professional luminance and chrominance are and Bookshelf separated. The basic building -Asimov block of the Indeo Video is a -Scholastic's square of 4-by-4 block of 16 Magic School pixels. The brightness Bus Explores information "Y", 16 bytes is all the Solar kept, but only 1 byte of "U" System and 1 byte of "V"; the color information is kept. This totals 18 bytes or 144 bits of information per block. Thus 9 bits per pixel. This format stores its files in a sequence of three planes. Each plane represents one of the "Y," "V," and "U" color space. VIDC.MRLE MSRLE.DRV -Cinemania 1995 MICROSOFT RUN-LENGTH ENCODING =MSRLE.DRV -Complete -World of Flight Baseball Guide MS video codec used for -Complete compressing clean graphic Basketball images. It has low CPU overhead, -Dangerous but does not handle rapid, Creatures complete scene changes. It is a -Encarta 95-97 device independent bitmap that -Asimov involves the basic scheme of -Wine Guide compressing multiple, -Scholastic's horizontally adjacent, Magic School identical pixels into a run Bus Explores encoding (the number of similar- the Solar colored pixels that are side-by- System side). These can be stored in 4- -World of Flight or 8-bit encoding schemes that defines an index into the 256- color table. This format is slow to decode and not widely supported. VIDC.MSVC MSVIDC.DRV -Ancient Lands MICROSOFT VIDEO 1 COMPRESSOR =MSVIDC.DRV -Bookshelf 1994 -Cinemania 1995 A video codec that compresses -Complete data quickly, has a low CPU -Baseball overhead, and is good for full -Complete motion, moderate quality video. Basketball Uses a dynamic palette stored in -Dangerous the AVI file that enables video Creatures clips to attain the appropriate -Dinosaurs palette per video file. This is -Encarta 95-97 the default video driver for -MS Office Windows. Professional and Bookshelf -Asimov -Schubert -Stravinsky -Strauss -Wine Guide -Scholastic's Magic School Bus Explores the Solar System -World of Flight NOTE: INDEOV.DRV is considered the "umbrella" driver. It is used to point to the INDEOV.INI file by the VIDC entries. The INDEOV.DRV then uses the file that is needed. For more information about the Intel Video Driver, contact the following: Intel FaxBack: (800) 628-2283 or (916) 356-3105 Intel BBS: (916) 356-3600 Intel Literature Hotline: (800) 548-4725 Additional query words: 1.0 multi media multimedia multi-media homekids mmtitles mmhome ====================================================================== Keywords : win31 Technology : kbOfficeSearch kbHomeProdSearch kbHomeMMsearch kbEncartaSearch kbZNotKeyword kbKidsSearch kbEncartaEncycSearch kbAncientLands kbMMStrauss kbMMSchubert kbAsimovSearch kbDangerousCreatures kbDinosaurs100 kbWine100 kbWine100a kbWine200 kbScholasticSolar kbArtGallery kbEncartaEnCyc1996 kbEncartaEnCyc1997 kbEncartaEnCyc1997Del kbMSBSearch Version : :1.0,1.0a,2.0 ============================================================================= THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THE MICROSOFT KNOWLEDGE BASE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. 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