README.TXT
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AVI Screen Saver
Version 3.1
Dated 12/12/97
http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~bfcarter/


TABLE OF CONTENTS
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1. Installation Instructions
2. Uninstall Instructions
3. Movie Player Option
4. QuickTime vs. ActiveMovie
5. Known Problems & Solutions
6. Fixes


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


MOVIE PLAYER OPTION
You can now choose which Movie Player to use (much the same way
you choose which player to use in Windows Media Player). Be careful,
however, not choose an inappropriate player.
This option also allows you to play non-movie files, such as MIDI
or WAV files.


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 & SOLUTIONS
Please note that not all of these problems apply to everyone but
only to certain computer configurations.

Problem: In Windows 95, when the monitor goes into power-save mode,
   the computer hangs.
Solution: Adjust the Power Settings in AVI Screen Saver. Check the
   option to stop playing movies. Specify the number of minutes with
   the same number of minutes before your monitor goes into
   power-save.

FIXES
For those who experienced inexplicable crashes in AVI Screen Saver,
here was the problem: When two QuickTime movies were played one
after the other and QuickTime (not ActiveMovie) was used, AVI
Screen Saver would crash. The cause was a sharing violation due to
Apple's implementation of QuickTime's unload function. The problem
has been fixed by inserting a one second delay between each movie.

AVI Screen Saver 3.0 and 3.0b would crash because of Netscape's
Media Player which comes with Netscape Communicator. 3.0c will
not crash. Instead, of seeing Netscape Media Player in the Movie
Player list, you'll see LiveAudiofile.


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