Media Vision VIDEO Drivers

These are various Media Vision VIDEO drivers for the ProMovie Spectrum and ProMovie Studio Boards. There are NO AUDIO CARD or CDROM drivers here!

I received them from Grant Newland <star@gvi.net> on January 21, 1996. He received them from a Media Vision download site "last year". I have tried the "pmstud21" driver with my ProMovie Studio and CU-SeeMe WhitePine 10a2, and it works. With my older driver, I got only about 4 grays in the grayscale.

Update 6/96: I now have these drivers working in White Pine release version 2.01, with the following caveat:

I can't figure out how to run palettized video. I can save a palette from "vidcap", but I can't see how to make CUSM use it. It will run in 32K or 16M color mode, but doesn't digitize very pretty colors on my system. In the earlier beta, or else with Cornell, I had it working with a captured palette. If anyone knows how to do this, please let me know.
If I set it to "CU-SeeMe Gray", it inverts the display to a negative image. You have to check "invert gray palette" and then RESTART CUSM. The "apply" button doesn't work. You then have to recheck "invert gray palette" every time before you quit so the next time it'll start up correctly. It seems they forget to save that setting when they quit, or else erase it when after they start up.

The other drivers are anyone's guess. Please Email me at the address at the bottom of the page if you can classify the drivers and I'll upload the explanatory text.

I ran a cursory virus check with McAfee and Norton virus checkers from last year. I've made reasonable effort to protect downloaders, but be advised that you DOWNLOAD AND USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

I make no warranty of usability, safety, or fitness for any particular purpose. I did not write any of these; I post them here as a convenience only.

John R. Haggis 1/24/96

If you want Multimedia, CDROM, or Sound Card drivers, go right to Media Vision:

Update 1/30/98:

I have received several admonitions from industrious surfers and they have brought to light a WORKING MV FTP SITE! Try this link:

http://www.svtus.com/index1.html

Thanks to Chris Wagener for the link and the notification.
Also: Bob Nash says the link below works again. Thanks, Bob.

If you want Multimedia, CDROM, or Sound Card drivers, go right to Media Vision:

THIS LINK WILL NOT WORK (SEE BELOW). 1/5/98

Media Vision Web Site File Listings

Updated 7/2/97 with its new Silicon Valley Technology Group home.

John R. Haggis 1/15/97

Update 1/5/98:

ATTENTION: To my knowledge, Media Vision is out of business. Their FTP/Web site at the link immediately above DOES NOT WORK. I'm leaving it here for reference only; it is the last known address.

I DO NOT HAVE SOUND CARD OR CDROM DRIVERS. PLEASE DO NOT EMAIL ME ASKING FOR THEM. My recommendation is to throw away your ancient Media Vision products and get the new, cheap, Windows 95-enabled sound cards and CDROMs available today. If you don't know how to find cheap ones, you can Email me and I'll help you.