HyperCam 1.19 Readme.txt file HyperCam captures the action from your Windows 95 or NT screen and saves it to AVI (Audio-Video Interleaved) movie file. Your machine may run in any color mode. Sound from your system microphone is also recorded. For best performance please set your machine in 8 bit color mode (256 colors). We found out that in this configuration HyperCam can capture up to 10 frames per second of 640x480 pictures on Pentium 133 machine. You may capture more if your capture area is smaller, or you have a faster machine. In 16 bit color mode it can do about 5 fps of 320x240 frames on the same machine. For 4 bit graphics MS Video does not provide a suitable compressor, so the frames are written uncompressed. This is also slow and produces large AVI files. Installation: ------------- To install HyperCam, please run SETUP.EXE program form the ZIP file that you downloaded, or the floppy disk that you have received. Program Status: --------------- HyperCam is a shareware product with the single user license price of US $30. While unregistered, it will place a small "Unregistered HyperCam" sign in the corner of the AVI files that you capture. To register your copy of HyperCam, please start the program, click on the "License" tab, then click on "Purchase License..." button. After we receive your payment, we will send you a license (key) by email or paper mail, which you may enter into the software to remove the "Unregistered" mark. Distribution: ------------- Distribution is permitted provided you follow these instructions: You are free to make copies of the distribution archive (HYPERCAM.ZIP) and pass it along to others for their evaluation provided that no modifications or additions are made to the software, its documentation, or any associated files, and it is not bundled in a distribution of any other software. Usage: ------ Select the area you want to capture, then select Start Rec. button or press a hot key. You may press the same hot key to finish. There is also a "Pause/Resume" hot key and button. You may pan (move the recorded area) by holding e.g. Shift key and moving the mouse. Please click on each tab in the HyperCam dialog and try to figure out what to do, or read the detailed help file. Updates: -------- For newer versions of HyperCam please check Hyperionics WEB at: http://www.hyperionics.com/ or email the author, Greg Kochaniak, at gregko@hyperionics.com Thank you for using HyperCam! Please do email me any comments and suggestions for improvement you may have! Greg Kochaniak Hyperionics 3146 Chestnut St. Murrysville, PA 15668, USA Fax: (415) 617-3721 Release History: ================ 1997.05.08 Version 1.19 Released Fixed two problems: starting recording in 256 color mode would produce sometimes invalid AVI files (when, upon minimizing HyperCam window for recording, another window with a different palette would come to front and realize its palette). The other problem: selecting AVI file name with Browse button would not always work correctly. 1997.04.17 Version 1.18 Released One more problem found and fixed - starting recording in "paused" mode (F3 hot key) would cause problems. Fixed. 1997.04.15 Version 1.17 Released Fixed a problem in licenses. Fixed also a bug where HyperCam would crash after recording more than 2 minuts of video on some Windows 95 systems. Fixed problem with saving video compression quality setting. 1997.04.10 Version 1.16 Released Added a number of command line options to auto-start recording and override the defaults. See the help file for more. Increased the sound buffers for high quality sound recording. Fixed incorrect values of sound sampling rate displayed on the Sound tab. 1997.04.03 Version 1.15 Released I'm sorry, rel. 1.14 was not right. It recorded the sound with wrong format information, and you could not switch between high and low quality sound at all. It's all fixed now, honest! Added a separate Sound tab, with even more sound parameters to select from. Also (hopefully) fixed a rare problem when HyperCam would produce invalid AVI files. 1997.04.01 Version 1.14 Released Added a selection to set high quality sound when recording. It's a check-box on AVI File tab. If checked on, HyperCam records 16 bit sound samples at a rate of 22050 per second. If checked off, 8 bit samples are recorded at 11025 samples per second. 1997.03.10 Version 1.13 Released Added a separate setting for playback frame rate on AVI File tab, which may be now set different from recording rate. However, if the playback is different from recording rate, you can not record sound. Separated resources into a separate CamRes.dll for easier translation into foreign languages. 1997.01.17 Version 1.12 Released Fixed: custom shapes of Windows 95 cursors were not captured correctly - they were always dispalyed as standard cursors. Controls inside HyperCam dialog are now disabled while recording a movie. You can now use Tab key to move the focus between all controls of HyperCam dialog. Fixed GDI resource leak on Windows 95 (could prevent you from recording very long clips, or many short clips without exiting HyperCam). 1997.01.08 Version 1.11 Released Fixed a problem on Hebrew version of Windows 95 and on NT 3.51. 1997.01.08 Version 1.10 Released This is the first full release of HyperCam. It was preceeded by a number of "beta test" versions numbered 1.0 Beta nn.