Q128231: WIN 3.1x: VIDC Entries in SYSTEM.INI and Descriptions
Article: Q128231
Product(s): Microsoft Home Multimedia Titles
Version(s): 1.0,1.0a,2.0
Operating System(s):
Keyword(s): win31
Last Modified: 08-NOV-2001
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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
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SUMMARY
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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
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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
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Keywords : win31
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