144 What's about Video-CD and CD-I? An Important Choice: Windows 3.1 or 95
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This article is from the MPEG FAQ, by Frank Gadegast phade@cs.tu-berlin.de with numerous contributions by others.
144 What's about Video-CD and CD-I? An Important Choice: Windows 3.1 or 95
We covered the requirement for playback of Green Book CDs, that the
Windows 3.1 CD driver (MSCDEX) be used instead of the Windows 95 driver.
But, there is also a special bug in Windows 95, for which Microsoft has
not yet released a fix publically yet.
An IDE CDROM may not reside on the primary channel with you Hard Drive.
It must be on the secondary channel. If you have a 486 with no EIDE
(no secondary channel) and want to use an IDE CDROM, tough luck. If
you have a Pentium and an IDE CDROM, move it to the secondary channel.
In general, you will find Windows 3.1 to be the preferable environment
for playback of Video CD and CD-i. There are less things to go wrong,
and configuration problems are easier to control.
Windows 3.1 is a good test environment also. If you have problems with
playback of Video CD and CD-i under Windows 95, you should test first
under Windows 3.1 if possible. That will help you define whether or not
the problem is hardware (the CD drive) or Windows 95 itself. Unless you
have a hardware problem, you should always be able to play Video CD and
CD-i under Windows 3.1!
Direct Draw improves video considerably under Windows 95, and improves
the frame rate. Direct Draw drivers write YUV information directly to
a video card that supports it. Generally, these video drivers are not
available yet, but some vendors have begun distribution of the beta
versions of their Direct Draw drivers. Diamond has Direct Draw beta
drivers available for its Video 2001 series. S3 reportedly has also
released its beta version for public testing. A special warning though.
These beta versions are generally untested, and may generate unwanted
or unexpected results during playback!
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