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<head><!-- SGI_COMMENT COSMOCREATE -->
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<!-- SGI_COMMENT VERSION NUMBER="1.0.2" -->
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<title>Cosmo Player 2.1.1 Multimedia</title>
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<body VLINK="#800080" LINK="#0000ff" BACKGROUND="background.gif"
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SGI_SRC="/cosmo/mainline/ucp/common/data/pages/background.gif" TEXT="#000000">
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<h1 ALIGN="center">Cosmo Player 2.1.1</h1>
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<h3 ALIGN="center">for Windows 95/98 and Windows NT</h3>
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<h2 ALIGN="center">Multimedia Support Installation Issues</h2>
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<h3 ALIGN="center"><b>December 15, 1998</b></h3>
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<p>Your system is missing an <em>optional</em> system software component that may affect
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your viewing or hearing of multimedia content in VRML worlds. Even without these
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components, you can still enjoy 3D content with Cosmo Player.</p>
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<p>The Cosmo Player console displays messages about multimedia content and related
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software components. If the console is not visible, click the mouse in
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the Cosmo Player window and then press the <strong>\</strong>
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(backslash) key to display it. </p>
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<p>Console messages may refer to "<a href="#activemovie">ActiveMovie</a>" or
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"<a href="#directx">DirectX</a>." These messages are explained below.</p>
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<h4><a name="activemovie"></a>ActiveMovie</h4>
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<p><em>If you see this message in the Cosmo Player console, your system lacks the
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ActiveMovie component:</em></p>
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<p><tt>ActiveMovie not available. Video will be disabled. Audio which is not uncompressed
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WAV or MIDI will be disabled.</tt></p>
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<p>Cosmo Player 2.1.1 requires ActiveMovie 1.0 or later in order to support video and compressed audio in VRML worlds. ActiveMovie is a set of Microsoft services that support
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playback of multimedia streams. Microsoft has changed the name of ActiveMovie to
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DirectShow. DirectShow will be bundled with DirectX beginning with DirectX 5.1 and also
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comes bundled with Internet Explorer 4.0, so you may recognize it under that name.</p>
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<p>You may want to download and install ActiveMovie. A self-extracting archive of the
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ActiveMovie support package can be downloaded from the <a
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HREF="ftp://cosmosoftware.com/cosmo/sw/amovie.exe">Cosmo ftp site (amovie.exe)</a>.</p>
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<p>Upon installation of ActiveMovie, you may find that multimedia files (.mpg, etc.) on
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your system have different icons. This is because ActiveMovie changes the default file
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associations for these file types. See <a HREF="http://www.microsoft.com/directx"
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TARGET="_top">www.microsoft.com/directx</a> for additional information on
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ActiveMovie/DirectShow.</p>
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<h4><a name="directx"></a>DirectX </h4>
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<p><em>If you see this message in the Cosmo Player console, your system lacks the DirectX
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component:</em></p>
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<p><tt>Direct X 3.0 or later not detected. Spatialization will be limited to simple
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left/right pan calculation.</tt></p>
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<p>Cosmo Player 2.1.1 uses DirectSound3D, available in DirectX 3.0 or later, to provide
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realistic, spatialized audio. Without DirectX 3.0 or later, audio will be
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pseudo-spatialized. Additionally, Cosmo Player 2.1.1 comes with a renderer that can take
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advantage of Direct3D acceleration, if DirectX 5.0 or later is present (this applies to
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Windows 95/98 only). </p>
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<p>To hear fully spatialized audio, you will need to install DirectX 3.0 or later. DirectX
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5.0 or later is recommended for Windows 95/98 users for better performance. A self-extracting
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archive of the DirectX 5.0 runtime is available from the <a
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HREF="ftp://cosmosoftware.com/cosmo/sw/dx5eng.exe">Cosmo ftp site (dx5eng.exe)</a>. This
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is the English language version of DirectX 5.x. International users should download the
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appropriate version directly from Microsoft.</p>
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<p>Versions of Windows NT 4.0 up to and including Service Pack 2 include DirectX 2.0. In
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order to upgrade to DirectX 3.0 or later for full spatialization support, you will need to
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install Windows NT Service Pack 3, which is available directly from Microsoft's site: <a
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HREF="http://support.microsoft.com/support/ntserver/Content/ServicePacks/" TARGET="_top">Windows
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NT Service Packs.</a></p>
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<hr>
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<p>See the following documents for more Cosmo Player information:</p>
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<p><a HREF="frames-help.html">Cosmo Player 2.1.1 Help</a></p>
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<p><a HREF="frames-relnotes.html">Cosmo Player 2.1.1 Release Notes</a></p>
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</body>
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</html>
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