Rainbow Runner Studio and win2k

[paulo larini]

Some one get this to work? How? I want to banish win98 from my system...

[Dr Mordrid]

Keep dreaming. I don't think you're going to get far.

Dr. Mordrid

[farid]

No way W2K is gonna be supported, especially now XP is on track (Oct 29th according to news.com yesterday)...

But even for XP I'm more than pessimistic because the RRS is now considered vintage hardware by Matrox. On the other hand, you never know of course, XP is supposed to replace ME/98/95 as well... (see below for a counter-example)

Farid.

*OT* Bedtime story : I recently purchased an HP 2100 scanner and on the box it said "Windows" (no versions mentioned). I quickly found that there were no drivers whatsoever for NT or W2K , so I was getting desperate until a favourable wind blew XP beta 2 my way ... guess what : the HP2100 is supported out of the box, so I'm a happy camper now (please Haig, hear this prayer)

[paulo larini]

And windows ME? what about this?

[This_Idiot]

Support for new O/S for the RR-S finished a long time back, way before Win2K hit the streets. I doubt that you'll see any more releases of Videotools that are compatible with RR-S.

[PJG]

Paulo,

I've got a RRS in my system running under Windows ME.
The combination works just fine.

[paulo larini]

Hi PJG,

Can you explain step by step and drivers versions that you used?

Thank you very much

[paulw]

Even a RRS code that would run under Win2K would be nice. Then I could at least edit in Win 2K and convert down to MPEG2

[This_Idiot]

PaulW

Try doing a search on the forum for "Picvideo", this should give you plenty to chew on. As for "how", Uwe wrote an idiots guide (seems like years ago)which is still available on the site.

Try http://www.desktopvideoworld.co.uk/I.../guide_10.html .

[paulw]

This_idiot,

Thanx alot for the suggestion and link. It worked great in Win2K with my RRS files.. Just had to copy some of the playback and hardwareACC settings from my windows Ulead32.ini file and we are editing.

Interesting thing though. I first tried it on a PC with WIN98SE. Using mediaplayer 6.5 I got a green playback screen and sound, but with the original mediaplayer it worked fine. With Win2K it worked fine with mediaplayer 6.5. Win2K has DirectX 8 installed. I don't think that the Win98 machine had this.

[PJG]

Hi Paulo,

I've installed Windows ME on a clean machine and loaded the latest Mystique 220 and RRS display drivers and RRS Vid Tools from the Matrox site on it.
4.12.013 Mystique
4.31 display
2.10 Vid.Tools

I'm now already using it for more then half a year using the matrox software for caturing & playback to video and MediaStudio Pro for editing.
The video gadgets that come with Windows ME also work (if you would want to use them).