MaVi2-1T3 2.1

Short:        MaVi-System Trial 3
Author:       Hans Raaf (h.raaf@pro-dev.com)
Uploader:     Hans Raaf (support pro-dev com)
Type:         gfx/show
Version:      2.1
Requires:     MUI, Graphics Board
Architecture: m68k-amigaos

ABOUT THE RELEASE:

This release is "MaVi Trial 3" and includes the
"Picasso96 fix" as mentioned in TechReport 12-02-97-001
(formerly available as a single fix archive) and some new
fixes for additional compability. The MaVi-System
internal Version is still 2.x. All the Tools are updated to
reflect customers needs and contain various enhanced
possibilities. There is a new Tool "MVInfo" which should
help our support to locate installation problems.

This release makes usage of our new FFS-Filesystem enhancement
which speeds up random and linear access to large files on FFS
partitions. Everybody who has experienced how long it takes to
seek randomly or just backwards in large files (e.g. 20 MB or
more) should check our www-site in the next weeks for a
benchmarking demo of this new routines. This system was invented
to speed up our upcoming Video/Audio-Stream editors and is
available as library and (maybe?) as system-patch. First
benchmarks show that it speeds up random and linear file access
on standard FFS-Partitions by more than 100 times (seek) and even
simple read/write operations without using a bunch of
system memory for caching!

WARNING:

We have told about a "mavikey.library" from the "Cracker Szene".
This key is dangerous to your system (with all current and
future MaVi releases)! You should be prepared to get a very
instable system if using a key which was not registered to
your own system! If you have a valid key and experience
system-crashes you should check your installation with "MVInfo".

ATTENTION:

Because the Trial-1 version has a date-check included it will
not properly work after the 1 February 1998. This was part of
our beta-testing procedure and forgotten to be removed in the
public release. As result MaVi-System can't recognize the
format of any media file anymore.

As mentioned before: The Trial 2/3 versions finally have no
                     expiration date!

All registered users of Version 1.0 need to get a new keyfile!
Please email or call our Support to obtain the new key!

DESCRIPTION:

MaVi (Multimedia Audio Video Interface) is a system enhancement
which handles many different formats (like Quicktime, AVI,
FLIC, GIF-Animations, WAV, AIFF, IFF-Audio, VOC and much more)
in the same way. It gives access to simple replay (Movieplayer)
and is internally build to help developers to support all of
this formats (and more in the future). This will include
generation and embedding in and with other products.

MaVi-Trial 3 is the trial version which acts as replayer and
simple mixer for the currently supported formats. This demo is
limited to 10 secs continuous playtime for unregistered users.
There are more decoders in the full-registered version of MaVi.

This is also an update for registered MaVi-Users!

MaVi can be ordered by using our WWW-Interface at:

 HTTP://www.pro-dev.com

or

 by Phone (Germany): 02247-912570
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