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- Microsoft ActiveX Conferencing SDK 1.0 (Beta 2) ReadMe
- July 1996
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-
- (c) Copyright Microsoft Corporation, 1996
-
- ========
- CONTENTS
- ========
-
- Overview of Components
- Installation Instructions
- Warnings and Known Bugs
- Other Information
- Instructions for Specifying Audio Codecs
-
- ================
- OVERVIEW
- ================
-
- Microsoft ActiveX Conferencing SDK contains the following directories. More
- detailed information can be found in the individual directories:
-
- HELP
- -------
- This directory contains help files describing Microsoft ActiveX
- Conferencing.
-
- INCLUDE
- ------
- This directory contains the include file: msconf.h
-
- LIB
- ------
- This directory contains the file: msconf.lib
-
- SAMPLES
- ----
- This directory contains the sample directories. See the readme.txt
- in the SAMPLES directory for more details.
-
- ULS
- ----
- This directory contains the User Location Server. See the readme.txt
- in the ULS directory for more details.
-
- =========================
- Installation Instructions
- =========================
-
- Microsoft NetMeeting 1.0 (Beta 2) must be installed in order to run the SDK.
-
- =======================
- Warnings and Known Bugs
- =======================
-
- - The associated release of Microsoft NetMeeting does not work with
- Winstone 96.
-
- - The Beta 2 versions of the Microsoft ActiveX Conferencing SDK and
- Microsoft NetMeeting do not work on Windows NT.
-
- - These beta versions only run with the US English version of Windows 95.
-
- - Uninstalling the ActiveX Conferencing SDK via the Control Panel
- removes registry keys and the Start menu items but currently does not
- remove any files. To completely remove the SDK you will need to delete
- the installation directory.
-
- =================
- Other Information
- =================
- Refer to the readme.txt file contained in the MSCONF directory of this
- ActiveX SDK CD-ROM for detailed information on the current status,
- warnings, and known bugs.
-
- Check the Microsoft ActiveX Conferencing homepage at
- http://www.microsoft.com/intdev/msconf for new sample code, new versions
- and to report problems.
-
-
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- Instructions for Specifying Audio Codecs
- ========================================
- A mechanism for integrating and testing other ACM codecs has been
- provided in the registry. One registry entry in "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\
- Software\Microsoft\Internet\Audio\CustomACMEncodings" represents one
- specific 3rd party format and the preferential order of attempts to use
- that format. The format of the registry key is "DriverName_x_y_z" where
- x is the ACM format tag, y is the sample rate, and z is the bits per
- sample. The key value is a positive number which represents the preference
- (i.e. "first choice", "second choice", and so on.) of that format. Example:
- to specify the preferred codec as the Microsoft G 711 A-law codec at an 8k
- sample rate, 8 bits per sample, the registry key will be
- "Microsoft CCITT G 711_6_8000_8", and the value of the key will be "1".
-
- Third party codecs will be selected first, in the order specified. If there
- are no complimentary 3rd party codecs specified at both ends, then the
- default codec selection mechanism will be used.
-