Bit Video for Windows
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ER/ Video for Windows users under Windows NT (3.1 & 3.5) have probably noticed
that they are unable to load or save AVI movies. This is due to a couple of
things:
1. Windows NT 3.1 does not support Video for Windows
2. Windows NT 3.5 DOES support VFW but its now in a new 32-bit flavor so
current support for VFW 16-bit will not work.
So what does all this mean?
We are currently developing 32 bit Video Windows support for our Windows NT
customers (NT 3.1 owners will need to upgrade to 3.5) and they are being tested
now and will be available shorly. We will also have FLC/FLI loading finished
soon so stay tuned.
FLC saving is now available and can be downloaded from our vendor library here
in this forum.
Chris Edgin
ERI Tech.
Is there a benfit to running ER under NT rather than win32?
Martin Kunert
The Kunert/Manes Company
Programs run faster under NT not to mention the fact that NT 3.5 is much more
stable than Windows and you dont have to worry about conventional memory
anymore and NT is much easier to install and does not have compatibility
problems w/ video cards.
Chris Edgin
ERI Tech.
>>Programs run faster under NT<<
PC Magazine says that's not a safe blanket statement to make. They just
benchmarked Excel 5 and Word 6 in both W4Workgroups and NT 3.5. The 16 bit
versions under W4W beat the NT versions handily. 16 bit Word even beat the
native NT app when both were running under NT.
Your mileage may vary, but don't believe the hype without looking behind it.
Did y'all do a 16 bit compile of ER?
Producing a 16 bit version of Elastic Reality really wasn't a possibility.
This is so for many reasons including (1) Elastic Reality is a cross platform
product who's code must be shared across platforms which have no concept of
16 versus 32 bit apps (and instead use flat memory models) and (2) the
internals of Elastic Reality thoroughly depend upon really big numbers
and really small numbers…both dependencies making the use of 16 bit
arithmetic (even for the simulations of floating point) into a seriously
difficult task.
While it may not be, as you say, right to make a blanket statement about
all apps running faster under NT, we can say that Elastic Reality is already
32 bit and any work to make it back into a 16 bit application would simply
get in the way of our producing new *and different* products without much
gain.
Jason
ERI technical supporter
just a quick note regarding your update for NT 3.5 VFW drivers. The read.me
file says to change the aviset32.dll to aviset.dll but when running er, it
looks for aviset32.dll. just thought to let you know
keith
Thanks for the info. I'll reload NT back onto my system.
Martin Kunert
The Kunert/Manes Company
Chris, on a slightly different topic, will you be providing OS/2 versions?
…and I don't mean Windows Video under OS/2…
Regards, Wolly
Thats a good one. No announcements have been made here regarding a native OS/2
version of ER but that does not necessarily mean that our planners aren't
thinking about it. If I hear something about i, I will let you know.
Chris Edgin
Technically Speaking