Moonlight's Elecard MPEG Player v 3.0 Release Notes
March 2005
 
 
Copyright information
Copyright (C) 2001-2005 Moonlight Cordless ltd.
Copyright (C) 1996-2000 Elecard Inc.
All Rights Reserved.


IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Moonlight’s Elecard MPEG Player includes Moonlight-Elecard MPEG2 Video Decoder and has a limited functionality. For using all functions you have to register and activate the Moonlight’s Elecard MPEG Player.
For more details on registration please contact Moonlight Sales Department (sales@elecard.net.ru).
And to find more information on activation procedure please, visit Moonlight site www.moonlight.co.il and read instructions of our knowledgebase.
The shareware version of the Moonlight-Elecard MPEG2 Video Decoder has a Logo in the upper corner of the decoded video. The evaluation period of the Moonlight-Elecard MPEG2 Video Decoder shareware is set as 21-day period. The "flying" Moonlight-Elecard Logo signifies that 21-day maintenance period of your shareware version has finished, and you should purchase the license and activate the Moonlight’s Elecard MPEG Player with the Moonlight-Elecard MPEG2 Video Decoder inside.


SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Supported Platforms
This release is supported on the following platforms:
* Microsoft Windows 98
* Microsoft Windows Me
* Microsoft Windows 2000
o Service Pack 1
o Service Pack 2
* Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Hardware Requirements
* MMX-enhanced CPU (Intel Pentium MMX, Pentium II, Celeron, Pentium III, AMD K6-2, K6-3, Athlon, etc.)
* 32 MB RAM
* Any VGA card
* 15 MB of free disk space


INSTALLATION INFORMATION

Please, uninstall all previous versions of Moonlight’s Elecard MPEG Player before installing a new one.

Installation

Run the delivery pack and follow the instructions of Wizard. After you click "Finish" the program is ready to run and doesn't require rebooting your computer.
The program runs after clicking "Start"->"Programs"->"Moonlight Cordless"->"Moonlight-Elecard MPEG Player 3.0"->"Moonlight-Elecard MPEG Player"
During the installation the program copies and registers DirectShow(R) filters (Moonlight-Elecard MPEG2 Demultiplexer, Moonlight-Elecard MPEG2 Video Decoder, etc). For additional information on including DirectShow(R) filters please read Moonlight’s Elecard MPEG Player User's Guide.

Uninstallation

To uninstall the program, click "Start"->"Programs"->"Moonlight Cordless"->"Moonlight-Elecard MPEG Player 3.0"->"Uninstall Moonlight-Elecard MPEG Player".
During the uninstallation all the above-mentioned filters and programs are uninstalled.
Note: During the uninstallation some dialogs can be placed behind the top window that stops the process, please give attention to this situation and switch active windows.


Product Description

Moonlight’s Elecard MPEG Player is a real time, software-only MPEG Player, providing high resolution, full quality decoding of MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 SP/ASP and H.264/AVC, optimized for the most efficient CPU usage.

The build-in codecs enables to play a number of multimedia formats such as:
* AVI,
* WAV,
* MP3,
* MOV, etc.

Supported Formats

* MPEG-1 Systems 
* MPEG-1 Video only 
* MPEG-1 audio(Layer I,II,III) 
* MPEG-1 (Video-CD) 
* MPEG-2 Program Stream 
* MPEG-2 Video only 
* MPEG-2 Transport Stream 
* MPEG-2 HDTV(including ATSC) 
* PIM-2 (AVI including MPEG-2) 
* S-Video CD 
* AVC/H.264
* MPEG-4 SP, ASP
* MP4 System
* AAC (evaluation only)

Features

* High definition video playback/decoding
* Real-time, high resolution video playback at D1 720x480 at 30fps for NTSC and 720x576 at 25fps for PAL playback on Pentium II 450 MHz with DirectX
* Compatible with the video card supporting the YUV overlay
* Displays correct aspect ratio
* Full screen mode
* Video frame capturing (pixel-by-pixel, aspect ratio or user defined) and saving in bmp/jpeg/gif format
* DirectShow and ActiveMovie compliance
* Audio MPEG-1 Layer (I, II, III)
* Audio MPEG-2
* Play list function
* Sound control
* Brightness control
* Deinterlace vertical filter
* Deinterlace field interpolation
* Play list merging feature 
* Post-processing deblocking
* Double precision IDCT
* Search forward and Search backward options – provide the ability to look through a movie by step. You can define step size by time (1, 2, 5, 10, 15 and 30 seconds) or by frame
* Quarter resolution playback (preview mode)
* Sequence and system header information
* Graph preview and ability to set filter properties 
* Playback of any well-known and widespread multimedia formats such as: AVI, WAV, MP3, MOV
* Opens URL for playback
* GOP-accurate MPEG-2 Trimming using re-multiplexing procedure
* Playback can be started in full screen mode at startup and this mode is switched off after movie ends
* DXVA hardware acceleration support

Components

* Elecard PIM2 Null (pim2null.ax)	
* MLMIxReader Module (MLMIxReader.dll)
* Moonlight DSG Viewer (DSGViewer.dll)
* Moonlight DumpPos (dumppos.ax)
* Moonlight Elecard MPEG2 Video Decoder (mpgdec.ax)
* Moonlight File List Source (FileListSource.ax)
* Moonlight H.264 Video Decoder (h264dec.ax) – NEW!	
* Moonlight MPEG Indexator (MlMpgIndexator.dll)
* Moonlight MP4 Demultiplexer (MP4Demux.ax) – NEW!
* Moonlight MPEG-4 Video Decoder (mmpeg4dec.ax) - NEW
* Moonlight MPEG2 MultiplEX (Mpeg2Mux.ax)
* Moonlight Net Source (NetSource.ax)
* Moonlight Odio Dekoda (mlcom.ax)
* Moonlight Sync2Async (Sync2Async.ax)
* Moonlight-Elecard MPEG2 Demultiplexer (mpeg2dmx.ax)
* Moonlight-Elecard MPEG Player (MpgPlayer.exe)
* License Tracker (LT.dll)
* Moonlight Registrator (Registrator.exe)


New and Changed Features

New features available in version 2.3:

* Multiple Instances – enables using one or several player’s instances
* Always on top – provides player position over other windows
* Ability to set audio decoder parameters from the player
* Tracing of video resolution changes and corresponding adjustment of Video Window size 
* Audio stream output statistics (from Audio Renderer)
* “Streams’ Check” dialog settings – provides three output dialog settings variants: 1 - Never, 2 - Always, 3 - When a number of streams is more than one stream (Audio/Video)

New features available in version 2.3.1:

* H.264/AVC support (evaluation only)
* AAC support (evaluation only)

New features available in version 2.3.2:

* Aspect ratio support for H.264/AVC
* AVC/H264 SEI support
* Support of fields in H.264/AVC streams
* Support of MPEG-4 streams multiplexed into Program Stream

New features available in version 3.0:

* DXVA hardware acceleration support
* Saving of the captured frames in bmp/jpeg/gif format
* Improved Grab dialog
* Displaying of the AVC/H.264 stream information
* New activation dialog


Fixed bugs in version 2.3.1:

* Bug in the Registrator GUI (out of the window buttons) is fixed 

Fixed bugs in version 2.3.2:

* Bug in the algorithm of the frame rate calculation for AVC/H.264 streams. 
* Bug in the audio stream detection.
* Incorrect AVC/H.264 aspect ratio.
* Bug in the detection of the AAC audio streams in TS.
* Unicode support bug.

Fixed bugs in version 3.0:

* Crush after fullscreen mode 
* Bugs in the file associations setting (registration of extensions)
* Bug in the saving of the Video Window Settings
* Incorrect video size
* Bugs in the opening of the file list
* Incorrect font displaying in the Settings dialog


Feedback

Visit Moonlight on WWW at http://moonlight.co.il
On technical issues contact the technical support team by e-mail at tsup@elecard.net.ru.
For licensing information contact sales@elecard.net.ru
