#PAR/MCI … (Razor)
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I just downloaded the PAR MCI drivers and have the following inquiries:
I am in PAL land and I have for PAR startup:
PARDRVP.EXE loaded, however MCI driver does not recognise this specific PAL
driver. I then changed my startup and started with the regular PARDRV.EXE so
not the PAL specific version. Well everything seemed normal animations still
play perfectly will this driver work without a hitch for PAR PAL version
(1.50).
With this driver MCI works perfectly under Windows and WOW even this is great
already. However in MCI configuration I can only select NTSC playback
options????? Do I need other MCI drivers for PAL????? If so who has them could
they not be uploaded here as well in case this is so.
I'm still waiting to acquire Razor Pro due to the many bugs I hear about on
the forum. Is there anyone that has Razor Pro working flawlessly at this time
and witch version is it. And if Jamie Carr is listening when do you think
Razor Pro is going to be 100% stable. For the moment I'm not in the mooth for
solving conflicts I have enough trouble with Memory eating AutoCAD13 for
Windows.
Christophe Van Oyen
Christophe,
In order to use the PAR in PAL you need to run the
PARDRVP program not the PARDRV file. The P denotes
PAL. It can cause problems if you run without the
NTSC version.
The new MCI drivers (version 1.1) work great and
do work with PAL, I was demonstrating this in CEBIT
last week and it worked flawlessly.
Today we released RAZOR PRO 1.0d. I believe it to
be extremely stable. After demonstrating it at CEBIT
for a week without any problems I feel very confident
saying that. There are many users on this forum who
are using RAZOR PRO without any hitches. I believe
we have solved every problem that we have been told
about. Most of these have been due to configuration
problems which we have almost eliminated due to
improved installation and the ability to set up
PAR parameters from within RAZOR PRO.
I encourage those users who have RAZOR PRO to download
the latest version from the BBS. The BBS is now
working at 57600, protocol N 8 1 Full duplex, hardware
compression. The download takes 4 minutes.
With 1.0d we have added improved STL support and we
have fixed a problem with reversed field order on the
iris transition.
At NAB, you will see samples of projects done with
the RAZOR PRO including a 1 1/2 hour movie complete
with sophisticated RP effects !
Jamie Carr
in:sync
If I have the PARDRVP for PAL active Windows does not see the MCI drivers
uploaded here this week????
If I however use the PARDRV for NTSCS with my PAL board everything uptil now
seems to work even the MCI drivers under windows????
Do I need specific PAL MCI drivers?????
Christophe
Christophe,
Just for the record, PARDRVP and the MCI drivers were
created by DPS. I will try and help you to sort out
the problems you've experienced based on my knowledge
of how these programs work.
PARDRVP and the MCI drivers are compatible – I was using
them in Germany at CEBIT without a hitch.
The reason why the MCI drivers are not coming up must
be related to your setup. Check that the PARINIT line in
your AUTOEXEC says the following:
C:\DPS_PAR\PARINIT /P=C:\DPS_PAR /WIN=C:\WINDOWS
The forward slash before WIN is very important.
It is not recommended using the PARDRV file with PAL
because there are differences (I can't remember them right
now but it can cause you to save the files to the wrong
size.)
There are no specific PAL MCI drivers. The regular MCI
drivers work fine.
Also check the size of your virtual memory swap file in
Windows – (Control Panels>386 Enhanced>Virtual Memory)
and make sure your virtual memory is no larger than the
size of your physical RAM.
Jamie Carr
in:sync
Jamie Carr
in:sync
I have got the PARDRVP running with MCI drivers.
I reinstalled the PAR software, it seems probably something in the PAR.INI was
wrong????
Because batch file and windows where all OK.
One problem however we keep getting NTSC speeds in PAR configure under windows
although it runs with PARDRVP and plays back and 25FPS it is only selectable as
30FPS???
I'm hoping to acquire Razor soon, I just let other people deal with the bugs
this time, I needed a break and it seems razor is getting up to speed, although
I know had to tackle with Acadr13 bugs, although it is starting to get
solved???
Christophe
Christophe,
I am not sure about your problem being only able to
select 30fps, that sounds like a problem for DPS. I
haven't seen anything like that.
Jamie Carr
in:sync
Well I am not the only one seeing this, although it is not an operational
problem evrything works ok.
It has to be somewhere in the MCI drivers, because the PARDRVP works.
So if Brick Eksten moves along maybe he has something to say about that.
Christophe
Christoper, i'm also in Pal land and stumbled over the same problems. The new
MCI drivers wouldn't work at all (didn't try pardrvP; never saw it, we do have
the 1.50 upgrade) but I can see the Windows Parsetup with NTSC frame rates.
You should use PARDRVP, the 1.50 install does let you choose between PAL and
NTSC so the right driver is automatically installed.
However the NTSC MCI showing seems to be just avisual bug because everything
works and plays OK under windows. I will E-mail Brick Eksten about this myself,
I think it would be very easy to change this, because it only seems to be
something with the visual interface showing wrong Video Type, but playing OK.
Also do a couple of reinstealls, also first time MCI is installed then Windows
gives an error in module krnel386, you have to quit and restart windows then it
all works fine.
Christophe Van Oyen,
Thanks, will try.
Jamie:
>> Just for the record, PARDRVP and the MCI drivers were created by DPS.
Just for the record, PARDRV (both NTSC and PAL) we created by Pyros Pictures,
specifically by Gus Grubba, for DPS. :^)
Greg Pyros
Greg,
sorry for the misrep…
Jamie Carr
in:sync
Jamie:
No problem! Just keeping you honest! <bg>
Greg Pyros