Cinematograph for Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98
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Copyright (c) 1999 by Carl Verner Skou, All rights reserved


What is Cinematograph.
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Cinematograph is a high performance and high quality movie viewer based
on DirectShow/COM for Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000.
Cinematograph displays MPEG, AVI and QuickTime movies on a black background
meaning no other pictures, windows will disturb the movies shown. You have
the option for resizing the movies on the fly - if you love movies the
widescreen format 16:9 is just for you - enter your own movie theater.

You can collect your movies in a collection and set diffirent options for
each movie: Size, rating, alias name. Further you have an option
for parental control, where you can specify from where your children can
view movies ( folders, CD-ROM discs ).

An autosearch option gives your the possibility to search harddisks, CD-discs
for movies supported by Cinematograph, the search result can be inserted
directly into a movie collection.

Cinematograph is designed around a VCR-control with the well known
play, pause, stop etc. for easy handling of movies. The design of the
program makes it very user-friendly - and under the hood the advanced
features of the Cinematograph engine and the DirectShow engine is running
silently, ensuring you can enjoy your movies.

Cinematograph is a very popular program, and it entered the top ten
download list on Rocket Download in just two weeks in the summer of 1999.
You can find Cinematograph on all major download sites as i.e.
Rocket Download, 32 Bit Resource Center, Download 32 and Microsoft
NT Resources.


How to install Cinematograph.
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Run SETUP.EXE and follow the instructions.

Some distributors are repacking Cinematograph, this can mean,
Cinematograph's setup-program cannot find it files, when you are trying
to run SETUP.EXE from inside the unpacking program. Solution: Unpack all
the files to temporary folder or to a floppy disk and run SETUP.EXE from
either the folder or the floppy disk.

The distributed shareware version of Cinematograph cannot make a silient
Setup.

The following files are in the distributed shareware version:

    Cinematograph.afx
    Cinematograph.exe
    Cinematograph.hlp
    Cinematograph.htm
    Cinematograph.www
    License.htm
    Order.htm

    FILE_ID.DIZ
    License.txt

    Setup.cvs
    Setup.exe
    Setup.usx
    cvsuinst.exe

If a file is missing, this is not the original distributed shareware
version and you should inform either the distributor or the programauthor
Carl Verner Skou ( e-mail: cvs@mail.dk ) about it. All distributors repacking
the archive must ensure all the above files are available in the archive and
that all files are the newest version.

It is not allowed to distribute any registered version of Cinematograph.


How to uninstall Cinematograph.
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Open Control Panel, click on Add/Remove programs, click on Cinematograph, and
follow the instructions.

If you have saved any movie collections in the folder containing Cinematograph,
the folder and the movie collections are not removed. Remove the folder
containing the movie collections with Explorer.


Conditions - Shareware.
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Cinematograph is not free software, Cinematograph is shareware.  You are hereby
granted a license to use Cinematograph on an evaluation basis for a period of
30 days from the date of acquisition. If you like Cinematograph and wish to use
Cinematograph after this period has expired, you must register it.

Cinematograph may not be sold or distributed for compensation without the
express written consent of Carl Verner Skou.

Distributors must contact Carl Verner Skou


What is an evaluation version?
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An evaluation version provides a way to obtain and evaluate software, and
hereby gives the users the opportunity to try a program before buying it.
You are allowed to use Cinematograph for 30 days, after using Cinematograph
after 30 days, you must purchase a licensed copy or remove the program from
your system.


Requires:
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   - Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0 SR 3.0, Windows 2000
   - DirectShow/DirectX 5.x ( DirectX 3.x if NT 4.0 SR 3.0 )
   - Pentium/Pentium MMX/Pentium II/Pentium Pro/Pentium III
     or compatible processor
   - Best performance with a AGPx2, SVGA PCI graphiccard in
     high (16 bit ) or true colors ( 24-32 bit )
   - Soundcard 16 bit, 4-44 KHz, stereo
   - Speakers
   - 32 MB RAM memory
   - One MB free diskspace for the programfiles


What kinds of movies are supported?
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Cinematograph supports all the major movie-formats

   MPEG (*.mpg, *.mpeg, *.dat)
   AVI (*.avi)
   Windows Media files ( *.asf, *.wmv)
   Apple QuickTime (*.mov, *.qt)

Depending on the configuration of your system the quality and
playback of the movies will be different. If you want to view
MPEG movies in full screen without dropping of frames, a minimum
system based on a Pentium II and a fast graphiccard ( AGPx2 ) is
required. A smaller system Pentium I will properly drop frames
or have delays showing MPEG movies in larger size than typical
320x240. Other movie formats will also vary, but as a rule of thumb
AVI and QuickTime movies should be shown without problems.

Please see below for further instructions about MPEG and QuickTime.


DirectShow, MPEG and QuickTime.
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Micorsoft DirectShow is required to view AVI, MPEG and QuickTime movies.
DirectShow is installed by the component Direct Media either by Microsoft
Internet Explorer or Microsoft DirectX Foundation. DirectShow is the
the descendent to Video for Windows and ActiveMovie, and it improves speed,
quality of supported movie formats in significant ways.

If you have installed MS Internet Explorer version 4.0 and newer or DirectX
version 5.x and newer, you should have DirectShow installed on your system.
If not, either:

1. Install Internet Explorer and remember to select Multimedia
   as one of the components.
2. Install MS DirectX Foundation

Microsoft DirectShow/DirectX Foundation can be downloaded from Microsoft,
please go the web-site:

     http://www.microsoft.com/directx/

To view Microsoft Media Video movies/recordings ( *.asf, *.wmv ) you must have
updated your system with latest Windows Media Player. You can download the
latest version from Microsoft:

     http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/



Apple QuickTime Movies.
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Cinematograph should be able to display and play most of the QuickTime
movies, except property QuickTime movies, which by definition are
property and requires either a special program or special drivers. Also
some rare older QuickTime formats are not supported by Cinematograph.


DVD Support.
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The current version of Cinematograph does not support DVD - a version
with DVD support is expected to be released in December 1999.


VCR controlbar, timedisplay, ruler.
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You do all the basic operation with the VCR controlbar, which you can
hide and restore with F3.

The timedisplay can be called with Ctrl+T, alternative Shift+F3. You can
toggle the timedisplay between current, remaining and total time by
clicking on the captionbar of the timedisplay. Remove the timedisplay
again with Ctrl+T or Shift+F3.

The ruler is called by Alt+F3 and removed again by pressing Alt+F3 once
again.

You can hide all controls ( VCR controlbar, timedisplay and ruler ) by
pressing Ctr+H.

To get a popup menu with access to all functions, right click with the
mouse anywhere on the screen. Alternative you can press Shift+F10 to
call the popup menu.


Full view mode.
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You have the option for hiding all controls when in full view mode.
Just press any key, i.e. spacebar/ESC to get the VCR control back
again.


Ruler view.
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A ruler can be shown and is used to drag to a new position with the
mouse, when a movies is shown or playing. The ruler will not be
available in full screen view. If you are in full screen view and
checks "Show ruler" in Properties, the view will be reset to the double
size. If "Show ruler" is on and you change the size of the movie to
full screen, the "Show ruler" check is removed.


Parental Control.
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Parental Control is aimed at families with small children in the
age 0-8.

Parental Control is a based on a password control, which enables you
to control from which folders and CD discs, your children are
allowed to watch movies with Cinematograph. Further it limits
the functions: Internet access from inside Cinematograph,
rename, delete, remove movies.

All non-allowed folders and CD discs are filtered out from the
playlist, Cinematograph is using.

In the properties of each movie in a Cinematograph collection
you can specify a movierating. If the movierating isn't "General
all ages [G]", the movie can only be shown after having entered
the password, if Parent Control is enabled.

To enable Parental Control, you must specify a password, which
later it used to change Parental Control and to set folders,
CD discs allowed for the children.

Notice, Parental Control only works with movies shown by
Cinematograph. You must use Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 to
secure your system based on useraccounts, if you want to make
a general protections of which movies can be shown by the system.

Hint: If you lose your parental password, just double-click
with the right mousebottom on the yellow textarea in Parental-
control and you are asked, if you want to remove password and
parental control.


NT 4.0 and Menu Command sounds.
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If you have Menu Command sounds enabled in NT 4.0, then if you
use the popup menu to open and play a movie in Cinematograph,
the sound of the movie could be disabled. If this is the case,
disable Menu Command sounds in NT 4.0, or press Play in the
VCR control.


DirectShow/DirectX and drivers.
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Be sure to have the latest drivers to your graphic adapter and
soundcard, when using DirectShow/DirectX. If you have an older
version of the drivers and they do not support the features
in DirectShow/DirectX, you can experience lower performance and
even programcrash.


Further instructions.
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Read the help Cinematograph.hlp for further instructions.
Examine the Trouble Shooter in the help, if you have problems.


Special features.
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- Pure DirectShow/COM programmed - faster and better.

- Option for keeping aspect ratio of original movie
  when shown in full screen view.

- Option for autohidding the VCR control etc. when
  playing movies in fullview mode. Also possible
  to hide all controls on the fly.

- Option for nuking parental password - if you forgot it!

- Parental Control. Protects your children by only allowing
  them to see movies from folders and CD discs you have
  specified. Access to Internet requires password if Parental
  Control is enabled.

- Mousewheel support. Use the mousewheel to zoom in and out.

- Playlist, show all movies currently selected to be viewed.

- Autosearch movies on your harddisk, CD disc, network drive.

- Set size of movie in the collection, in this way you can show
  the movies in different sizes.

- Internet WEB site access to selected WEB sites.

- Movie collection, insert any movie from any source into
  a movie collection. You combine any source media and
  from different folders. Cinematograph Movie Collection
  can autosearch harddisks, CD-discs for any movie
  supported by Cinematograph.

- Auto-search movie if not found.

  Example: A movie is on CD-ROM 'E', you have inserted the
  CD disc in drive 'F', Cinematograph will find the right
  drive. Useful if you i.e. have made a movie collection
  based on a CD disc, and is using the collection on another
  system, configured different than your own system.


Fixed.
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- Potential infinite loop when start of Explorer fixed
- Detecting MMX processor only works with NT 4.0,
  detecting removed.
- Setup read the correct size if harddisk is greater than
  2 GB.
- Timedisplay, show hours:minutes:seconds if AVI or QuickTime
  and frames if MPEG movies and older version of DirectShow
- Gridsize fixed, could be less than 0, meaning possible to
  divide with zero!
- Ruler is updated correct if MPEG movies
- Ruler shown correct if moive is fullscreen
- CD eject would affect current movie if the movie is not
  on the CD disc.
- Changing displaysettings on the run will update the viewarea
  correct and now resets the movie to its original size.

Y2K - year 2000.
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Cinematograph is year 2000 compliant. You should update your
Windows system with all Y2K fixes to ensure your system is
full year 2000 compliant.

This year 2000 statement about Cinematograph version 2.0.2.5
and newer is given as it is without warrant either expressed
or implied.


Bugs.
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Please specify the following information in your bug report:

- OS ( Windows 95/98, Windows NT 4.0/2000 )
- PC ( name, type ).
- Memory MB RAM.
- Graphiccard and mode.
- MPEG hardware/driver if any.
- Soundcard ( name, type, best sampling etc ).
- CD ROM ( name and type ).
- DVD drive ( name )

- From where or who did you get your copy of Cinematograph.


Support, shareware.
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Read the online help for further instructions. All registered users will have
free update to the later release version and all future versions of
Cinematograph. Use ORDER.HTM to order and pay your own personal copy of
Cinematoraph.


Carl Verner Skou, October 1999

Internet: cvs@mail.dk "The Dolphin"

