MPEGone - DOS MPEG and VideoCD player version 1.00


Download DOS MPEG player


If you prefer a menu driven player have a look at QuickView - DOS multimedia viewer. Version 2.42 has support for MPEG and VideoCD playback.

A Linux version is under development.

Register Online

You can register MPEGone online with your credit card over a secure server connection. The registration fee for a single system is $25. All updates are free. Please ask for prices of multiple licenses.

Supported Files

Supported are MPEG files with suffix .MPG, .M1V, .MPE, .MPV and .DAT. DAT files are files from the VideoCD that are usually named AVSEQ01.DAT and so on. VideoCDs and CD-i (partly) are supported using the /VCD command.

System Requirements

The player is a 32 bit protected mode program and therefore needs at least a 80386 processor. For playback of MPEGs with higher resolutions, a Pentium 166 system is recommended. For sound decoding you must have a coprocessor. Also, you should take care that you have a VESA 2.0 compliant graphics card or driver as it has a high influence on the MPEG performance. Full screen video playback is supported for various S3 graphics chips.
The player will run under DOS 3.0 or better, or in a DOS shell under Windows 95/98 and OS/2. You must have a VGA card in your system. For sound support you must have a Sound Blaster compatible sound card, a Gravis UltraSound Classic or MAX, or a Windows Sound System.

Installation

There is no installation necessary. The player will automatically detect your machine, memory and graphics card. For sound support with a Sound Blaster, compatible or ESS chip you must have the Environment variable BLASTER set containing port address, IRQ and DMA channel or the appropriate ULTRASND variable for the Gravis UltraSound. A Windows Sound System card is autodetected.

Command Line Format (most important ones only - for a complete list look in MPEG.TXT)

The command line format for the player is: MPEG [options] [filename]

Options:
/VCDx Start VideoCD playback. x is the track number. If you don't give a track number, track 2 will be assumed for VideoCDs and 1 for CD-i.
/MMX Don't use MMX enhancements.
/Rx Select screen resolution:
x=1: 320x200
x=2: 640x480
x=3: 800x600
x=4: 1024x768
If a mode is not possible auto select will be used.
default: auto select
/Qx MPEG quality:
x=0: TrueColor
x=1: HiColor
x=2: 256 colors
x=3: Grayscale
The default is HiColor.
/2 Video Zoom 2x. The videos will be displayed twice as big. This requires a fast system though.
/E Use every-Second-Line zoom for HiColor zoom. On slower systems, this option helps to speed up the display of zoomed videos in HiColor mode by only drawing every second line. The lines in between remain black.
/C Don't switch to text mode after playing
/N Don't set video mode. This can be used together with /c, /x and /y to display graphics around the video for example. You should take care that the color depth of the video mode that is set when you start the player is equal to the one that would be selected for the video or picture.

Contact the author Wolfgang Hesseler


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Last updated on 16th December 2000 webmaster@multimediaware.com