This installer is going to install the Video Server Package. 
All rights of the installed software belong to the authors. 
It is mandatory to read all documentation include in this package.

Program : Premiere Video Server PlugIn v0.93 / Video Wrapper codecs
Author  : Edwin van Eggelen
e-mail  : edwinvaneggelen@softhome.net
URL     : http://www.videotools.net 

Program : Installer v0.99
Author  : Silly Guy
e-mail  : sillyguyw@yahoo.com
URL     : http://ice.prohosting.com/sillyguy/

Program : BbMpeg v1.24 beta18.1
Author  : Brent Beyeler
URL     : http://members.home.net/beyeler/bbmpeg.html

Program : PullDown v0.99c
Author  : Hardcore

Program : Wav2mp v1.1
Author  : John Schlichther
URL     : http://www/mnsi.net/~jschlic1

New:
-Audio support for the Wrapper server mode.
-external audio encoder input for the multiplexor (Useful for CCE)
-Added AC3 multiplexor support.
-Bug fix: problems with settings are solved in Premiere.
-Automatic default settings detection for each application.
 (Now random access is automatically enabled in Premiere as default)
-If the Timeout function is selected, the time out is enabled after that 2
 frames are read. This prevents the problem that the plugin times out
 when the user is setting the properties in TMPGEnc.
-post processing support for VCD.
-Help link in settings menu.
-Added check for audio encoder. Now you will get a warning
 if you are not exporting 44100Hz audio when the audio encoder is enabled.
-GUI fixes (e.g. location of window)
-Audio only fix for MPEG mediator

Introduction:
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The video server plugin enables you to convert Premiere or FlasK
to a frame server. This is very useful if you want to code your edited
video from Premiere or FlasK with an external (MPEG)-encoder
e.g. TMPGEnc or Cinemacraft encoder. This is done by creating a "fake"
AVI-file. The created "fake" AVI can be loaded into the encoder as
a normal AVI. This resolves the problem of making a time and
space consuming intermediate AVI. If you load the "fake" AVI-file
into an encoder, the aviwrap.dll codec makes a connection with the plugin.
When an encoder wants to read audio or video, this request is passed
to the Premiere/FlasK plugin. Then the plugin fetches the audio/video
and sends this to the encoder. We call this inter-process-communication.

Recommended server mode for encoders:

   Encoder                           Server mode
----------------------------------+--------------------------
-Microsoft Media Encoder v8       | Wrapper, RAW Audio
-Cinemacraft SP v2.62             | Wrapper
-Cinemacraft SP v2.50             | Wrapper
-TMPGEnc (several versions)       | Wrapper
-VirtualDub v1.4d                 | Wrapper
-NERO encoder plugin v1.2         | Wrapper *
-LSX encoder v3.5                 | Wrapper, RAW Audio or AVISynth
-Ulead DVD Movie Factory (editor) | Wrapper

* If you run into problems please use RAW Audio, I have performed
  many succesful encodings with the NERO MPEG plugin, but
  occasionally NERO gives an error at the end of the encoding.

Do I need AVISynth ?
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NO, The Premiere Video Server plugin is a standalone program. It does not need
AVISynth to export the data (So you do not need to install it). The plugin is
able to export the data to AVISynth but I only recommend that you use AVISynth
if you want to process the video in the export chain with a script language.
AVISynth is something like Adobe Premiere but without a graphical user
interface, it uses a script language as user input.

Please note that not all encoders are able to read AVISynth-files. The following
encoders are NOT able to read AVISynth-files: CCE SP v2.62, Windows Media
Encoder v8. Although I was able to encode AVISynth-files in TMPGEnc on all my
tested systems, I am getting reports that some people are not able to code the
AVISynth-files in TMPGEnc on some machines.

Guides:
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There are many good guides on how to use this plugin. You can find a guide
and some good links on my site (www.videotools.net). The site www.rmvos.nl
has the latest info about this plugin most of the time.
So maybe you should start looking there first.

Tested operating systems:
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I have personally tested it on Windows 98, NT and Windows 2000.
So this should be no problem.

Tested programs:
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Premiere v5.x         (RGB only)
Premiere v6.x         (RGB only)
FlasK v0.x            (RGB only)
multipass FlasK v0.6  (RGB only)
multipass Xis x.x     (RGB,YUY,YV12)
Xmpeg                 (RGB,YUY,YV12)
DVDx v1.6             (RGB only)
MPEG Mediator	    (RGB only)

Links:
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Window Media Encoder v8 (free download)
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/

Cinemacraft Encoder SP v2.62 (trial version)
www.doom9.net

TMPGEnc (free download)
www.tmpgenc.com

VirtualDub (free download)
www.virtualdub.org

BUGS:
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If you find a bug, please send me an e-mail so that I am able to fix it.

Known problems:
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-DVDx 1.6 will crash at 99%. This happens if you try to export more frames
 than there actually are in the DVD-movie. So I recommend that you lower the
 number of frames, so that the final video will be 30sec shorter than the
 DVD. (You only skip the "credits"). To date I have not able to
 create a workaround for this. Hopefully the author of DVDx will fix this soon.

-If the proxy server of virtual dubb is enabled. The AVIroutines from windows
 will not work correctly as discribed in the readme of virtualdubb. As a result
 the plugin is not able to create the AVIfile correctly. Please run the proxyoff.reg
 file from the virtualdubb package.

-VirtualDub does not recognise the bits per sample of the audio correctly. 
 Turn on "Full processing mode" in the audio menu. 
 	Audio conversion->Precision->16bit.
 It is possible to enable a bug workaround for this, but as CCE SP 2.62
 crashes with this workaround it is not enabled by default. Please read the
 documentation on my site to enable it.

-TMPGEnc is not able to read AVS-scripts correctly
 Disable the DirectShow filters in TMPGEnc when using AVISynth. You can find out
 on my site how to do this.

-Encoder/player will not read the AVISynth-scriptfile ? I noticed that many
 "new" programs do NOT use the Windows functions to read the AVI-files. If they
 do NOT use those standard Windows functions the AVISynth- files will  not work.
 Known programs that do NOT use those routines are CCE SP v2.62, Windows Media
 Encoder vx.x Furthermore, I heard that there are problems with Windows Media
 Player 7.

-You can NOT serve to the Media Player v6.4 in Windows 98 while using the AVI-
 Wrapper mode. If you do open the created AVI in the Media Player using W98, it
 will result in a crash of your system. This is not a bug of the AVI-Wrapper but
 more than a shortcoming of the Media Player using W98. The problem is as
 follows: when the codec is getting the message to decode a frame, the Media
 Player sets the operating system in such a mode that no other application gets
 any CPU time. Because the codec gives a request to the server to decode a frame
 and waits 'till this is ready, it looks like your system hangs. The Media
 Player disables all other applications (and the server) and this frame will
 never be decoded and the Media Player waits forever..............

 To date, I have noticed that ONLY the Media Player does this while running
 under W98. So all tested encoders work fine while running W98.

Hope this helps....


