The Beta version of EZ Squeeze is located in the Pioneers folder of the
3DO Toolkit 1.5. Two methods of installing the tool are described below.
Quick install
Use quick install if you want to evaluate the EZ Squeeze codec. This will
allow you to compress your own QuickTime movies, weave the compressed
video with your audio, and play the resulting stream with the EZQPlayer
application.
In the Pioneers folder on the Toolkit 1.5 CD, open the
Tools folder and the MovieToEZQ folder and copy MovietoEZQ
into your 3DO:Streaming:2p1:Stream Tools folder.
Open the EZ Squeeze Examples:EZQPlayer folder and copy
EZQPlayer into your remote folder.
Open the Examples:EZQPlayer:Apps&Data folder and copy
COPTER.STREAM to your remote folder.
To play a movie launch the Debugger, and in the Debugger Terminal
window type ezqplayer copter.stream.
Installing MovieToEZQ lets you convert a QuickTime movie into an EZ
Squeeze chunk file. After using the Weaver tool to convert the chunk file
into a stream file, you can use EZQPlayer to play the EZ Squeeze stream on
a 3DO Development Station or Development Card.
Full installation
Full installation installs source code for most of the EZ Squeeze
components.
Open the EZ Squeeze Subscribers folder and copy the
EZQSubscriber folder into the Subscribers folder in the 2.1
Data Stream folder (3DO: Streaming 2p1:Data Stream:Subscribers).
In MPW, set you directory to the
3DO:Streaming:2pa:Datastream:Subscribers folder and run the MPW script
BuildSubscriberLib. This rebuilds the SubscriberLib to include
EZQSubscriber.
Copy the EZQPlayer folder to the Streaming 2p1 Examples
folder.
In the EZ Squeeze Tools folder, open the
MovieToEZSqueeze folder and copy it to the Source folder in
the Steaming 2p1 Stream Tools folder.
Note: The lowest level compression and decompression modules are
supplied in object format only. These are squeeze.lib, the Mac
compression library, and ezqcodec.lib the 3DO decompression library.
Sample data
In the folder Pioneers:EZSqueeze:Examples:EZQPlayer:Apps & Data, you
will find the following sample files:
COPTER.DM - Uncompressed QuickTime movie. Note that this sample takes
up 57 MB of disk space.
COPTER.SCRIPT - Weave script for making COPTER.STREAM.
COPTER.STREAM - An EZ Squeeze stream, playable with EZQPlayer (6.5 MB
of disk space).
COPTER.MAKE - An MPW script that will create COPTER.STREAM.