Description
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FMdriver is a new driver system for the FrameMachine
video-card from electronic-design.
It is a completely rewritten driver and it features
the fastest possible access-speed to the hardware.
It is fast enough to watch television on the Workbench
(PPC strongly recommended!)
The driver and the TV-program are included as 68k and
PPC-versions to provide optimum performance.
The FMdriver archive contains several programs:
FMBaseConfig -- A config-program which allows the easy
configuration of the Prism24-display and
digi-sizes.
FMTV -- This program allows you to use the
FrameMachine for watching television on the
WB (!!).
It also allows to configure the Prism24 so that
you can watch TV over it.
You additionally have the option to make
snapshots from the video and save it as image
to disk.
FMInit -- A small tool which allows to initialize the
FrameMachine with user-definable settings.
It is very useful to copy this tool into
the WBStartup drawer to auto-init the FM
on boot. as alternative, you can also use FMInit
from Shell.
FMRecorder -- Record small movies directly to your harddrives!
This program is also able to playback the recorded
anims and also allows to convert them into single
images.
FMRecord -- This shell-program allows to record FMMovie anims
directly to harddisk (like FMRecorder does).
FMRecordDec -- This shell-program is a converter from the FMMovie
file format into single images (same funtionality
as FMRecorder, but useful for script-processing).
FMGrab -- A small shell-program which allows to grab images
and save them to file.
PLEASE READ THE DOCS FOR FURTHER INFORMATION!!!!!!
Requirements
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o FrameMachine video card, with or without Prism24 add-on
o AmigaOS3.x (tested with 3.9)
o About 2MB free RAM
o 68020(+)
o OCS, ECS or AGA (runs from 2 to 256 colors (!!) )
> For full image quality and speed you should have running
> with CGX V3/V4 or Piccasso96 in 15 Bit or more
Additionally you need for the PPC-Versions:
o a PPC 603e/604e PowerPC accelerator board
o WarpOS V3 or better
Distribution
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FMdriver is GIFTWARE. If you use it,
please send me a donation.
History
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V1.00: (15.08.1999)
** first public release **
V1.01 (20.08.1999)
- fixed a small bug in the install-script
V1.10 (29.08.1999)
** 2. public release **
- added global support for non-gfx-board Amigas (!!)
- added the programs FMInit, FMGrab, FMRecord,
FMRecordDec and FMRecorder
V1.12 (01.09.1999)
** 3. public release **
- added the gadget "Filename style" to FMRecorder for
more filename styles
Thanks Lemmink, for this idea!
- added a status requester (frames/fps) to FMRecorder
for playback and recording
- FMTV now closes the TVControl window, if you close
with the right mouse button into the TV window
- removed a "flicker-problem" in small resolutions
(this caused also strange lines on some machines)
Thanks to Rolf Wiessner and Ingo Nehls for reporting
this problem!
- added global support for the following image
filetypes: PPM, PGM, IFF24, IFF8, IFF24c, IFF8c
- The FMdriver was unable to work without a attached
Prism24 board... sorry, hadn't tested this until
Gernod Schomberg reported this... Thanks Gernod!!
V.13 (16.01.2000)
- added the option "NoBorder" to FMTV to have only
the TV-picture on the WB
- added menus to FMTV
- introduced the double buffer mode of the FrameMachine
(brings *major* speed increases!!)
- added Brightness, Contrast, Gamma, Red, Green, Blue
correction functions to FMTV
- added the "GrabbingCenter" to FMTV! Now there it is
really easy to grab images out of videos!
- added a lot of shortcuts to FMTV
- FMRecorder now has anim-controls (pause, seek, ...)
to have much better access to the recorded video
- FMRecorder profits of the double buffer mode of the
FrameMachine very much, too!
V1.14ß (21.12.2000)
** 4. public release **
- made some smaller fixes over a long time period
- now, my FrameMachine driver resides in a new
library "newframemachine.library". Now there is no
more need to use different versions for 68k and PPC!
V1.25 (07.04.2001)
** 5. public release **
=> changed _a_ _lot_, so perhaps I forgot something to mention here:
- cleaned up the newframemachine.library a bit
- added a new feature: configurations, now you can save and
recall several different configurations you can create with
FMBaseConfig; added this feature to all FMdriver applications
- the driver now always uses the last used config as default
- FMBaseConfig is now localized
- changed the structure of FMBaseConfig to have all the new
possibilities which became available with configurations
enabled
- the video-window of FMBaseConfig and FMRecorder always snaps
to the right border of the main window
- FMTV now is able to grab a picture from the tvwindow,
prefswindow and grabcenterwindow just by pressing <SPACE>
Thanks to Rolf Wiessner for this idea!
- fixed an enforcer hit of FMTV
- FMTV didn't use the filename for the image basename specified
by the filerequester in the grabbing center. fixed.
Thanks again, Rolf!
- from now on, every application in FMdriver will have the same
version number; this will help to ensure what version is installed...
- updated the complete guide documentation so that the new features
are also covered... hmm... writing documentation really needs
*very* much time... :(
- FMRecorder is now also able to make time-lapse animations
- almost rewrote the documentations
Author
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Stefan Robl <stefan@qdev.de>
More infos about ArtecScan, the QBox, FMdriver, CGXBlanker,
DPMSManager, AVL and my other Projects?
Just visit my Homepage: http://www.qdev.de
Have fun!
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