AVI Screen Saver
Version 4.0
Dated 4/11/98
http://www.stanford.edu/~bfcarter/


TABLE OF CONTENTS
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1. Installation Instructions
2. Uninstall Instructions
3. Using AVI Screen Saver
4. QuickTime vs. ActiveMovie
5. Known Problems & Solutions


INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:
1) Decompress all of the files.
2) Double-Click the Setup program.
3) You may be prompted for a directory. Simply choose the
directory where you decompressed the screen saver files.
4) You will be given an opportunity to change your Display settings.
If you do not, you may go to the Control Panel and adjust
your Display settings later.
5) When the installation is complete, you may delete the files that
you decompressed.


UNINSTALL INSTRUCTIONS:
1) Go to Control Panel.
2) Open Add/Remove Programs.
3) Click on AVI Screen Saver.
4) Click on Add/Remove.


USING AVI SCREEN SAVER
Documentation is also located at
http://www.stanford.edu/~bfcarter/aviss/

In order to use AVI Screen Saver, you will need to find some
video files in a format that your computer supports. All Windows
machines support AVI files. If you have ActiveMovie, which comes
with Internet Explorer, you will be able to play MPEG and
QuickTime movies in addition to AVI files. If you have
QuickTime 3 from Apple, you can take advantage of the built-in
QuickTime 3 support.

Once you have some movies, add them to the playlist by clicking
the Add button or dragging them into the playlist window. You
can then adjust their properties by clicking the Properties button.
You can rearrange their order by clicking the Up and Down butons.
Finally, to remove a movie, select it and click Remove. The
playlist editor also supports multiple selection, so you can do
these actions on multiple movies at once.

In the Properties dialog, you can choose to Mute a movie by
checking the Mute option. You can change the Scaling of the
movie by choosing an option from the drop-down list. You can
leave this setting on "Use Global Option" to use the scaling choice
on the main dialog window. You can adjust the number of times the
movie loops by entering a number in the Looping area. If you want
your movie to bounce around the screen (this is processor intensive),
check the Bounce option. To align your movie click on the button
with the graphic that represents the alignment you want. For
example, a centered movie is the button in the middle.
To add titles to your movie, you will need to check the Show Titles
option on the main dialog window. You will also need to enter a
title in the Properties dialog. You also have the option of setting
the font of your title by clicking on the Set Font button.

You can choose a Media Player in the Properties dialog (similar
to the Windows Media Player). If Auto Detect does not work with
your movie, try setting this option manually.

In the global options area, you can set options that apply to all
of the movies. A movie's properties will override these settings.

To save or open a playlist from disk, open the File menu and
choose the appropriate option.


QUICKTIME VS. ACTIVEMOVIE
ActiveMovie plays movies faster than QuickTime, but it does not
support as many QuickTime formats as "genuine" QuickTime.
If you experience problems playing QuickTime movies, edit
your movie's properties in AVI Screen Saver and change the Movie
Player to QuickTime (AVISS Implementation) or QuickTime for Windows.


KNOWN PROBLEMS
In Windows NT, QuickTime 3 does not work in screen saver mode.

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