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T&V HappyPlayer is an OS/2 program that operates TV cards built on Brooktree BT848 chip. It possesses such features as picture scaling, clipping, channel autoscan, separate tuning of signal coding (PAL/SECAM), brightness, contrast and color saturation for each of 100 channels, support of channel descriptions in a text file, and some more. It is good to notice that unlike other programs, T&V HappyPlayer does not hog CPU.

Models already supported:

• AIMSlab Video Highway Xtreme
• FlyVideo 98
• AVER TVPhone98
• AVER TVPhone (untested)
• AVER TVCapture (untested)
• Fly Video II (untested)
• Miro TV PCTV (untested)
• Miro TV PCTV Pro (untested)

System requirements:

• Hardware requirements:
  • PC-compatible computer, 486 or higher
  • PCI 2.0 bus (some TV-cards may require PCI 2.1)
  • TV-tuner card based on Brooktree BT848A card (or newer).
  • SVGA video with 8, 15, 16, 24 or 32-bit color (8-bit mode is not recommended for color monitors because of very strong color distorsions); VRAM (SGRAM) video memory and 800x600 or better resolution is recommended
  • TV system with SECAM and/or PAL signal coding. No NTSC support yet, sorry!
• Software requirements:
  • IBM OS/2 Warp 3.0 or higher
  • Presentation Manager
  • DIVE
  • To speed up window dragging we recommend to switch 'Full window dragging' mode off
  • NEVER USE T&V HappyPlayer with third-party utilities, which extends OS/2 Desktop out of physical screen bounds! Because of PC architecture concepts, TV-card works with memory on physical layer, without using virtual memory and protection schemes, so this may cause TV-card to write video data out of video memory, to PC RAM or peripherial devices' memory, and so to INCORRECT SYSTEM BEHAVIOR, DATA LOSS, and in heaviest cases - to PHYSICAL DAMAGE OF EQUIPMENT (e.g. losing flash memory content).

Answers on frequently asked questions are given in faq.eng.

This program is shareware. See register.eng for details.

Current version of T&V HappyPlayer is 1.10 (23.04.2000) (tvh_110r.zip, 102k).

What's new in latest version:

• Backspace key switches to previous active channel.
• /TV:M205PRO -- Tekram M205pro support.
• /TV:PIXELVIEW -- ProLink Pixelview support.
• /TV:HIGHSCREEN -- Vobis Highscreen support.
• /TV:FLYVIDEO_98FM -- FlyVideo 98FM support.
• /TV:FLYVIDEO_IINEW -- new FlyVideo II support.
• 'o' key displays current settings in titlebar.
• Plugin support. If PLUGINS subdirecory in happy.exe home directory is created, T&V HappyPlayer, tries to install all DLLs from there as plugins. Plugins programming notes see in plugins.eng file.
• First version of plugin for Aver TVPhone98 remote control support - AVER98RM.DLL. Place this DLL from SDK to PLUGINS directory to use it. Remote control acessed by polling, so CPU usage with this plugin is more than 0%.

Vadim Rumyantsev
Tatiana Rumyantseva

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